PSSI History

PSSI was formed on April 19, 1930 in Yogyakarta with the name of Goods All Indonesia Football Association. As a sports organization that was born in the Dutch colonial period, the birth of PSSI has something to do with political efforts to oppose the occupation. If want to further examine and analyze the moments before, during, and after birth until 5 years after the proclamation of independence on August 17, 1945, it became clear that the PSSI was born dibidani by politically charged, either directly or indirectly, to oppose the occupation with seed strategy the seeds of nationalism in the chest Indonesian youths who joined.

PSSI was established by a civil engineer named Soeratin Sosrosoegondo. He completed his education at the High Technical School in Heckelenburg, Germany, in 1927 and returned to his homeland in 1928. When he returned, Soeratin working on a Dutch building company, Sizten en Lausada, which is headquartered in Yogyakarta. There he was the only Indonesian who sat parallel to the commissioner of the big construction companies. However, driven by a high spirit of nationalism, he then decided to withdraw from the company.

After quitting en Sizten Lausada, Soeratin more active in the field of movement. As a young man who likes to play football, he recognizes the interests of the implementation of the decision points that have been agreed in a meeting of the youth of Indonesia on October 28, 1928 (Youth Pledge). Soeratin see football as the best container for the seed of nationalism among the youth as a means to oppose the Dutch.

To reach his goal, the Soeratin diligently meeting with football figures in Solo, Yogyakarta and Bandung. Meetings conducted by personal contact secretly to avoid ambush Dutch Police (PID). Then, when it held a meeting in a small hotel in Jalan Kramat Binnenhof 17, Jakarta, Soeri, chairman VIJ (Voetbalbond Indonesische Jakarta), as well as other officials, dimatangkanlah ideas need to establish a national soccer organization.