Jakarta, 9 September 2026
On September 9th, 2026, IADO held an inaugural lecture session for six physicians enrolled in the Sports Medicine Specialist Program at the Faculty of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Jakarta. The session was conducted directly by IADO Chairman Gatot S. Dewa Broto at the IADO office meeting room in Jakarta. This lecture activity served as a follow-up to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by IADO Chairman Gatot S. Dewa Broto and the Rector of Atma Jaya Catholic University of Jakarta, Prof. Dr. dr. Yuda Taruna, Sp.S(K), on June 30th, 2025, at the Rector’s meeting room. In essence, the MoU outlines a framework for conducting seminars, competency enhancement, training, research, community service, and other activities in support of the Tridharma Perguruan Tinggi (the Three Pillars of Higher Education). Its objective is to optimize the resources of both parties for the implementation of these activities. The scope of the agreement encompasses teaching, research, and service to the sports community regarding anti-doping initiatives.
Prior to this, on December 9th, 2025, a full-day inaugural lecture regarding anti-doping oversight regulations and implementation in Indonesia was delivered to ten students from the Sports Medicine Specialist Program at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (FK-UI), at the IADO meeting room in Jakarta. Subsequently, on April 8th, 2026, a meeting took place between members of the IADO leadership and the Head of the FK-UI Sports Medicine Specialist Program, Dr. dr. Nani Cahyani Sudarsono, SpKO(K), who was accompanied by the Program Secretary, Dr. dr. Listya Tresnanti Mirtha, SpKO(K). That meeting served as a follow-up to a previous virtual meeting held on July 28th, 2025, which specifically addressed the planned collaboration between IADO and the FK-UI Sports Medicine Specialist Program. Given the comprehensive preparations resulting from several virtual meetings, the Rector of Universitas Indonesia, Prof. Dr. Ir. Heri Hermansyah, S.T., M.Eng., IPU, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding education, research, and community service with the Chairperson of IADO on November 12th, 2025.
The delivery of lectures to students from the Sports Medicine Specialist Programs at both FK-UI and the Faculty of Medicine at Universitas Atma Jaya has effectively fostered trust within the academic community, facilitating further collaboration with higher education institutions to advance anti-doping efforts in Indonesia. For the current semester, the lecture series provided by IADO will continue over a two-month period, taking place almost weekly, following the inaugural lecture’s overview of anti-doping, it will be followed to testing procedures, principles and case studies on Results Management, intelligence and investigations, Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE), and finally, anti-doping education. Meanwhile, the final semester exam will be held on November 2nd, 2026.