2011 ASEAN Para Games

6th ASEAN Para Games

Motto	United & rising through sports for all
Nations participating	11
Athletes participating	2000+
Events	380 in 11 sports
Opening ceremony	15 December 2011
Closing ceremony	20 December 2011
Officially opened by	Boediono Vice President of Indonesia
Officially closed by	Agung Laksono Coordinating Minister of the People's Welfare of Indonesia
Ceremony venue	Manahan Stadium, Surakarta
Website	2011 ASEAN Para Games
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The 2011 ASEAN Para Games, officially known as 6th ASEAN Para Games was a multi-sport event held from 15 to 20 December 2011, in Surakarta (Solo),^[1] Central Java, Indonesia with 380 events in 11 sports and disciplines featured in the games. Solo's Manahan Stadium^[2] was the main Games venue.^[3][4]

The ASEAN Para Games is traditionally hosted by the same country and sport venues where the Southeast Asian Games took place. Lack of accessible facilities or inexperience in catering to the needs for disabled sport has recently triggered a change of country – Malaysia^[5] rather than Laos for the 2009 ASEAN ParaGames. The trend continues with the substitution of hosting city - Solo rather than Jakarta in this edition of the Para Games. Indonesia hosted the Southeast Asian Games for the fourth time but host the ASEAN Para Games for the first time,^[6] and is the fifth nation to host the ASEAN Para Games after Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand.

The final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by host Indonesia and Malaysia. Several games, Asian and National records were broken during the games. The games were deemed generally a successful one held in Indonesia which saw the rising standard of disabled sports competition amongst Southeast Asian nations.

Organisation

Host city

The 6th ASEAN Para Games was hosted by Surakarta (Solo), Central Java. Previously, Indonesia hosted the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang. But given the fact that both the Southeast Asian Games host did not provided disabled-friendly facilities, Surakarta was chosen as the host city of the games because it provides facilities friendly to disabled athletes.

Development and preparation

The Indonesian ASEAN Para Games Organising Committee (INASPOC) is the organising committee for the 6th ASEAN Para Games. INASPOC^[6] is chaired by Prof. James Tangkudong under the aegis of the National Paralympic Committee of Indonesia to oversee the staging of the event.

Venues

The 2011 ASEAN Para Games used existing venues, with most of them are equipped with disabled-friendly facilities. Donohudan Building, Haji Complex in Surakarta was chosen as the main athletes village during the Games.^[3] To accommodate and house athletes and their families, as well as other members of the contingent. Athletes and their families were housed in Hotel Sunan, Surakarta, whereas Technical Officials, Classifiers and Information Technical Officers were housed in Hotel Agas and Hotel Sahid.

The 6th ASEAN Para Games had 11 venues for the games.^[7]

Public transport

Shuttle bus services were provided throughout the games and were used to ferry athletes and officials to and from the airport, games venues and games village.

Marketing

Logo and mascot

The Official Mascot.

The logo of the 2011 ASEAN Para Games is a Garuda image which includes the ASEAN Para Sports Federation logo in within. The national symbol of Indonesia, the Garuda represents strength, its wings epitomise glory and splendor. The green strokes symbolise the islands, forests and mountainous terrain of the Indonesian archipelago, while the blue strokes represents the vast Nusantara ocean which unifies differences. Land and water or Tanah Air in Indonesian means fatherland. Red strokes represent courage, zeal and burning passion to give the best for the country.^[8][9]

The mascot of the 2011 ASEAN Para Games are a pair of Komodo dragons named Modo and Modi.^[10] This mascot was adopted from a real animal endemic to Indonesia. Komodo dragons are found in the Komodo National Park. The dragon was selected as the mascot of the ASEAN Para Games 2011, Indonesia to promote the Komodo National Park as a candidate for the New 7 Wonders of Nature online contest.

Modo is a male Komodo dragon dressed in a dark brown surjan comodo, traditional clothing of Central Java, with dark brown pants and a batik blangkon headcloth (a typical Javanese male headcover). Meanwhile, female dragon Modi wears a fashionable bun konde or wig headdress to accent her batik kebaya.

"Modo," short for Komodo, while "Modo-Modi" is similar to the Indonesian word Muda-Mudi or "youth" which refers to the youth of Indonesia. Modo and Modi are hardworking, honest, fair, friendly and represent sportsmanship. Modo and Modi reflect the positive personality of Indonesia, preserve the harmony of co-operation and promote friendship among participating countries in the ASEAN Para Games.

The games

Opening ceremony

Sacred flame taken from the Mrapen eternal flame lit the torch during the opening ceremony held 15 December 2011 in Manahan Stadium. Boediono, the Indonesian Vice-President officially opened the Games.^[11] Batik, the nation and the city's traditional cloth was the main icon in the opening ceremony.^[12]

Closing ceremony

Pouring rain failed to dampen the spirits of jubilant athletes, fans, officials and entertainers during the closing ceremony held five days later in the same venue. Traditional Javanese dances were performed and the famed marching band from Surakarta State University likewise entertained spectators.^[13] The Games was officially closed by Agung Laksono, Coordinating Minister of People's Welfare of the Republic of Indonesia with the ASEAN Para Games responsibilities handed over to Myanmar, host of the 2014 ASEAN Para Games.^[14]

Participating nations

Sports

Indonesian Paralympic Organising Committee (INASPOC) President James Tangkudung confirmed a total of 11 sports for the games^[3] for the games. Sailing which debuted as a medal sport in the 2009 ASEAN Para Games, was not included by the organisers in this edition of the Games, despite the 2011 SEA Games edition which includes Sailing in its sport line-up.

Medal table

A total of 1051 medals comprising 380 gold medals, 338 silver medals and 333 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The Host Indonesia's performance was their best ever yet in ASEAN Para Games History and were second only to Thailand as overall champion.

Key

  *   Host nation (Indonesia)

2011 ASEAN Para Games medal table

Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thailand (THA)	126	96	73	295
2	Indonesia (INA)*	113	108	89	310
3	Malaysia (MAS)	51	36	45	132
4	Vietnam (VIE)	44	44	72	160
5	Philippines (PHI)	23	23	18	64
6	Myanmar (MYA)	11	8	12	31
7	Singapore (SIN)	9	10	9	28
8	Brunei (BRU)	3	5	8	16
9	Cambodia (CAM)	0	5	2	7
10	Timor-Leste (TLS)	0	2	4	6
11	Laos (LAO)	0	1	1	2
Total (11 NPCs)		380	338	333	1051

See also

• 2011 Southeast Asian Games

References

External links

• Official site: 2011 ASEAN PARA GAMES, Solo
• Central Java support site: 6th ASEAN PARA GAMES, Solo