Indonesia's feuding leagues agree to merge

The long-running battle over controls of the sport had left the football-obsessed Indonesia country with two leagues and two national teams.

"This is remarkable. It's a major leap for the future of our football," Djohar Arifin Husein, chairman of the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI), said after the PSSI's special congress voted on the issue in a luxury Jakarta hotel.

"We have one league, one national team, one football federation and we can avoid FIFA's sanction."

KPSI chairman La Nyalla Mattaliti was appointed vice chairman of the PSSI. Mattaliti and three other former members of PSSI's governing executive committee were also reappointed.