Of course, This achievement is very different from last year's achievement 2007 who made it into the top five. This condition is a step backwards for the progress of the Gandung City sport on the East Java regional stage. Even, the sport that is favored gains achievements, it sluggish and goes home empty-handed. Like volleyball. In the first edition, Banyuwangi volleyball branch immediately dominates.
Imagine, The achievements of the Banyuwangi volleyball branch have successfully won the title by winning gold medals for the men's and women's teams. So therefore, Banyuwangi volleyball is one of the strengths in the second edition. But, That glorious achievement failed to be maintained. Even, Banyuwangi volleyball branch failed to win a single medal. Of course, The poor performance set a bad precedent for the Banyuwangi contingent in general.
How not, instead of maintaining the top five position, turns out to just finish in position 24. That hurts, Banyuwangi contingent lost far with the achievements of neighboring districts, like Jember which is ranked 5th. Fortunately, Banyuwangi contingent achievement is better than Bondowoso and Situbondo. The Bondowoso contingent is ranked 31st and Situbondo is ranked 33rd from 38 the contingent that competed in the second edition of the multi-event event which was held in Malang.
The performance of the Banyuwangi contingent fell at that time in the era of Anton Sunartono who became the new captain of the Banyuwangi KONI general chairman replacing Pebdi Arisdiawan. The chairman of the Banyuwangi contingent at that time was still held by Joko Triadni who now still exists in developing karate who is a member of the Indonesian Traditional Karate Federation. (FKTI) Banyuwangi. Many factors contributed to the Banyuwangi contingent achieving bad results in the second edition of the East Java Province.
One of them, athletes who won medals in the previous edition did not appear in the second edition. ''Medalist in the year did not participate in the second Porprov,'' said the general chairman of KONI Banyuwangi at that time, Anton Sunartono. Other factors, light him, due to the increasing number of sports being competed. according to her, when it's there 20 the sport being competed.
''In addition to adding a lot'', also because of the budget factor,high school principal said 17 August 1945 That Banyuwangi. He narrates, The funding barrier made the Banyuwangi contingent unable to talk much and lost in the competition. He mentions, the budget at that time was only about Rp 400 million. ''Failure of that achievement is a bad experience for Banyuwangi. Don't let it happen again,'' he said. (radar)
