Busan, 5 December 2025
IADO in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, attended the opening of the World Conference on Doping in Sport, held in Busan, South Korea, on December 2nd, 2025. The Ministry of Youth and Sports was represented by the Secretary of the Ministry Mr. Gunawan Suswantoro. IADO was represented by its Chairman Mr. Gatot S. Dewa Broto, who was present from December 1st to the closing of the conference on December 5th, 2025. The conference (supported by WADA and the South Korean Government or the Republic of Korea) was officially opened and closed by WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) President Mr. Withold Banka and attended by global sports stakeholders, including IOC President Mrs. Kirsty Coventry, several former WADA Presidents, representatives of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) leaders, several Ministers of Sport and/or their representatives, several National Olympic Committee (NOC) leaders, almost all National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) leaders, and several former athletes.
The Busan conference was crucial because, while the previous conference in 2019 in Katowice, Poland, had already produced, among other things, the World Anti-Doping Code 2021, the Busan conference produced the World Anti-Doping Code 2027. Furthermore, the conference allowed WADA and conference participants to discuss and interact with each other in order to share information on the challenges of universal doping control. For Indonesia, there were many things to be gained from participating in the conference. First, it allowed the Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Director of WADA for the Asia Oceania Region to dialogue with each other to improve the performance and quality of doping control in Indonesia, especially with the support of the Indonesian Government’s commitment to IADO. Furthermore, IADO was also able to interact extensively with various stakeholders in the sports sector, particularly in the field of doping control, given the increasing number of new methods and/or substances emerging that are suspected of being not completely free of doping.