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Soccer-Indonesia sports committee offers to mediate in dispute

JAKARTA, April 21 (Reuters) - Indonesia's National Sports Committee (KONI) has offered to liaise between the government and the soccer association to end a bitter feud that led to the suspension of the latter last week.

On Friday, the sports ministry sanctioned the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) after it continued to ignore a recommendation to bar two clubs from competing in the domestic league because of ownership concerns.

"(PSSI officials) asked me approach the government as the PSSI is a member of KONI," committee chairman Tono Suratman told local media on Tuesday after a meeting with newly elected PSSI president La Nyalla Mattalitti.