Basketball in Indonesia - Indonesian Basketball Players, Satria Muda Britama Jakarta, Erick Christopher Sebayang, Andi Poedjakesuma (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Indonesian Basketball Players, Satria Muda Britama Jakarta, Erick Christopher Sebayang, Andi Poedjakesuma, Isman Thoyib, Kelly Purwanto, Ary Chandra, Denny Sumargo. Excerpt: Satria Muda BritAma Jakarta is an Indonesian basketball team seeing action in the Indonesian Basketball League. Based in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, it is Indonesia's representative team to the inaugural Asean Basketball League. Affectionately called "SM BritAma" or "SMB" (not to be confused with another popular basketball team within the Asean region, the Philippines' San Miguel Beermen which is also known as "SMB") by its fans, the team plays their home games at The BritAma Arena in Kelapa Gading, Jakarta Utara. Initially known as Satria Muda Mahaka (with the Mahaka Foundation being its initial sponsor), it began play in the now-defunct semi-professional Kobatama League in 1994 and won the Kobatama title five years later. Satria Muda then made the jump to the Indonesian Basketball League upon the latter's foundation in 2003. A year later, the Bank Rakyat Indonesia, through its BritAma brand, became the team's major sponsor, and since then the team identity has been Satria Muda BritAma. It has won four domestic titles (2004, 2006, 2008 and 2009) and has also won the SEABA Champions Cup in 2008 by dethroning Harbour Centre Batang Pier from Asean basketball powerhouse Philippines. Satria Muda is one of the six founding teams of the first pan-Asean pro ball league, which began play on October 11, 2009, but will still remain in the Indonesian Basketball League. In the ASEAN Basketball League, it allows them to add two foreign reinforcements and up to three players from Asean countries. It finished third overall in the regular season standings and became the runners... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24490712