Jakarta, 14 March 2025
On March 6th and 11th, 2025, IADO received warnings from WADA via emails, respectively. Both warnings essentially reminded IADO, because based on ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System) data monitored by WADA, it turned out that IADO had not carried out samples collections for OOCT (Out of Competition Testing) in the first quarter of 2025. It is true that IADO has carried out sampling for ICT (In Competition Testing) at a certain international sporting event in January 2025, but the absence of samples collections in that particular quarter for OOCT was not justified by WADA.
IADO certainly did not want there to be no samples collections in early 2025 for OOCT, because it wanted the activities to be carried out in accordance with the form of compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code. In response, on March 14th, 2025, IADO sent an official letter to Mrs. Mayumi Yaya Yamamoto (WADA Director for the Asia Oceania Region). In its letter, IADO stated IADO’s apology to WADA for receiving a warning, and would immediately conduct OOCT sampling in the third and fourth weeks of March 2025. Finally, in its development, OOCT sample collections were carried out by several IADO DCOs without any problems at all.
At that time, IADO had no intention of violating its compliance. It was just that the main problem was that IADO was being affected by the efficiency policy implemented by the Indonesian Government, so that the OOCT sampling activity was also one of those affected. The reason for the efficiency policy had been explained by IADO in its letter dated March 14th, 2025 and WADA could understand. However, WADA’s warning was a lesson for IADO to be aware of it if something similar happens again in the early years to come.