REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Asian Football Confederation (AFC), assigned by FIFA to settle the problems of Indonesian football, postpones its visit to Indonesia. The delay was announced prior to the scheduled visit on Jan. 10.

Initially representatives of AFC were scheduled to meet Indonesia Football Federation (PSSI) and Indonesian Soccer Rescue Committee (KPSI), as well as Task Force. "We are informed that AFC will come to Indonesia after January 10," Secretary General of PSSI, Halim Mahfudz, said on Thursday. 

Mahfudz admitted that the AFC did not cite its reason behind the delay. But PSSI expressed its hope that AFC could come to Indonesia this January to help settling the conflict in Indonesian football.

During Executive Committee Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, last December 14, FIFA gave Indonesia a chance to settle the polemic of double football federation. FIFA set the deadline for PSSI to resolve the matter until February 13 or the matter would be taken to FIFA Executive Committee Meeting on March 20.  

FIFA will give firm sanction should Indonesia fail to settle the problems. Indonesian membership could be immobilized, preventing Indonesia to play internationally.

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