2016 Pekan Olahraga Nasional is the nineteenth edition of Pekan Olahraga Nasional. It was held in Bandung, West Java in 2016. It was the first time for Indonesia's third largest city of Bandung to host the games in more than forty years. Bandung hosted the fifth edition of Pekan Olahraga Nasional in 1961.
Bids
West Java was given the rights to host the 2016 Pekan Olahraga Nasional by acclamation of the members of National Sports Committee of Indonesia. Banten was the only other applicant which submitted its bid for the games.[1][2] North Sulawesi showed its interest in hosting, but later decided to cancel it.
Venues
Events will take place in 68 venues, each venues will be feature in 16 cities and regencies of West Java Province.
The 2016 edition featured more sports than the previous edition.[3] 44 sports and 12 demonstration sports will be held in various venues scattered around West Java.[4]
The Games were marred with controversies in the competition itself and other non-competition related aspects. At least 15 of the 44 sports contested faced problems involving unfair judging, intimidating supporters, or sudden change of rules.[5] Boycott from other provinces also occurred in judo[6] and synchronized swimming.[7]
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