Abstract
The Indonesian football league has been devastated greatly because of match-fixing, a problem that has caused the decline of the country’s achievements in international events. The ongoing mechanism of using sports law or lex sportiva is considered ineffective because it provides no deterrent effect on offenders. The country may learn from Australia, who has gained many international sports achievements by previously eradicating match-fixing in sports, including football. Australia has included match-fixing among acts of sports corruption, and offenders may be sanctioned both by receiving criminal punishment from a law authority and disciplinary sanction from a sport or football authority. To prevent and address the involvement of gambling syndicates in many instances of match-fixing in football matches, the country has enacted a national policy on the codes of conduct and anti-match-fixing measures in sports and established a special unit to coordinate the law authority and sports authority. Although it has a different system of law, Indonesia may learn from Australia in eradicating match-fixing in football and may have many great achievements in international events as a result.
Highlights
With its diversity and multipopulated groups, Indonesia was able to perform well in two international sporting events, namely, the Asian Games and the Asian Para Games 2018
It has a different system of law, Indonesia may learn from Australia in eradicating match-fixing in football and may have many great achievements in international events as a result
Some sanctions have been imposed using lex sportiva or sports law, which is ineffective in eradicating match-fixing. This gap in Indonesian law exists because no specific law against match-fixing exists
Summary
With its diversity and multipopulated groups, Indonesia was able to perform well in two international sporting events, namely, the Asian Games and the Asian Para Games 2018. President Joko Widodo announced that the year 2018 was to be a moment when Indonesian sports would be revitalized Such positive nuances were disrupted by several anti-graft cases under the aegis of officials within the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, where corruption riddled the decisions of public officials within the environment of the law. Rusli Lutan, a well-known sports expert and professor from the Indonesian University of Education in Bandung, argued that Indonesia faces various problems that make the implementation of a national sports law difficult4 He identified Australia, the United States, most European countries, China, Japan, and South Korea as countries with impressive sports 5. This paper may explore the regulation of anti-match-fixing in Indonesia and Australia and how Australia has successfully dealt with match-fixing Some lessons from this valuable exploration may be generally applied in Indonesian sports, in Indonesian football
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