Indonesian Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan has been appointed chief of the national badminton association (PBSI) for the next four years.

"I believe that by reorganizing the management in this sport, education and the compensations for the players and the coaches, achievements will follow. That's the foundation," Gita said after being sworn in as the new PBSI chief in Cipayung, East Jakarta.

Gita garnered most votes that qualified him to lead the PBSI until 2016, to beat his rival, former acclaimed national badminton player Icuk Sugiarto, to seize the chairmanship in the association's congress held in Sept. 21 in Yogyakarta, the Antara news service reported on Friday.

Gita expected to these new recruitment can help bring back the heyday of Indonesian badminton on international stage.

Indonesia used to play a weighty role in inernational competitions but now only they only have a handful of world-renowned players and seldom won international championships.

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