The Football Association of Indonesia is the latest sports league to partner with sports betting data supplier Sportradar.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Football Association of Indonesia, commonly known as Sepakbola Seluruh Indonesia, will be able to use Sportradar’s renowned Fraud Detection System (FDS) to monitor betting behavior and patterns for the league until 2016. It includes the remaining 290 matches of the incumbent Indonesia Super League season and the lower-tier Divisi Utama, as well as the entirety of the 2015 and 2016 ISL seasons, the Inter-Island Cup and Divisi Utama.
Over the course of its partnership with the Football Association of Indonesia, Sportradar will be in charge of monitoring over 1,800 matches.
“We understand that approximately US$65 million is bet on the ISL alone every season,” PSSI General Secreterary Joko Driyono said in a statement. “This is a staggering figure. We cannot afford for even $1 of that to be placed on a manipulated outcome. We at the PSSI are absolutely committed to ensuring that football in Indonesia is exciting for players, attractive for sponsors and broadcasters and exhilarating for fans.”
“The PSSI have not only put their faith in us and our Fraud Detection System, but they have done so for the long term,” Sportradar Managing Director Andeas Krannich added. “This is a great honour and we will work tirelessly in partnership with the PSSI to ensure that full and fair competition prevails across Indonesia.”
The partnership with the Football Association of Indonesia comes a week after Sportradar inked similar fraud detection deals with CONCACAF and the Thai Premier League.
In the Philippines, a prominent horse owner has voiced his displeasure on the state of the country’s horse racing industry. Businessman-lawyer Narciso Morales told the Philippine Star that the proliferation of illegal bookies in the industry is keeping it from flourishing.
“I’m calling the attention of the players in the industry, from the Philracom (Philippine Racing Commission) to the owners, jockeys, trainers, clubs and horse racing organizations to do their part in fighting this menace that’s been killing the sport which we all love, ” he added.
Morales owns nearly 30 horses that actively run in the three racing clubs in the Philippines and has admitted to being a victim of perderan, a term used in local horse racing circles to signify intentionally losing a race so that bookies win a bigger percentage of the bets being wagered.
