Indonesian Basketball League

Basketball has a long history in Indonesia. Noted since the 1930s, although not yet officially an independent country, several cities in Indonesia have their own local clubs.

Although it does not yet have a national sports parent, at the time of the holding of the first National Sports Week held in Solo in 1948, basketball had become one of the sports branches that was contested and was received quite lively both in terms of participants and spectators. Three years after, on 23 October 1951, Perbasi was born.

Following the results of the VIII Congress in 1981, Perbasi finally organised a competition between basketball clubs in Indonesia which are the highest competition followed by big clubs from the islands of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan and Sulawesi.

3 April 1982 is a historic date for the basketball world in Indonesia. On that day, the match between the Rajawali Jakarta club against the Sinar Surya Yogyakarta Spirit marked the start of the first Main Basketball Competition (Kobatama) as well as the first step in the long history of the competition of top clubs in Indonesia. Jakarta Muda Indonesia listed themselves as the first club to win the prestigious Kobatama Champion title.

Kobatama as an amateur basketball competition rolled out for 20 years and continued until it stopped in 2010. In 2003, the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) professional competition was held and participated by 10 top teams in Indonesia.

Aspac Jakarta succeeded in becoming the first title winner in 2013. In 2004, Satria Muda emerged as a new force to get rid of Aspac in the grand final and to appear as a champion. Aspac won the title of champion again in 2005. The following years (2006-2009) belonged to Satria Muda Jakarta.

In addition to the annual regular competition, IBL also holds an IBL Cup Tournament at the beginning or end of the season. In 2009, Satria Muda Jakarta defeated Pelita Jaya Jakarta in the final held at GOR C-Tra Arena Bandung. In 2008, Garuda Bandung managed to steal the previous IBL Cup Tournament title, in 2006 and 2007 also belonged to Satria Muda.

Unfortunately, the development of IBL did not go as expected. After repeatedly changing promoters, the league threatened to disband at the end of 2009. All participating club representatives also asked PT DBL Indonesia to appear as manager. Previously, DBL Indonesia was considered successful in managing the Development Basketball League (DBL), the largest student basketball league in Indonesia, which in 2010 had expanded to 21 cities in Indonesia, followed by around 25,000 players and officials.

To restore the prestige of this professional league, re-branding is inevitable. Starting in 2010, IBL changed its name to the Indonesian National Basketball League (NBL). A number of changes were made, trying to increase the number of matches again, bringing the league closer to its fans. With NBL, Indonesia also has a new hope, a new spirit.

• Stapac Jakarta (withdrew in 2020)
• CLS Knights Surabaya (withdrew from 2017-18 season but still play for representing Indonesia (as CLS Knights Indonesia) in the ABL through 2018-19 season)
• Stadium Jakarta (withdrew in 2017)[4]
• Indonesia men's national basketball team (Indonesia Patriot)

Years		Players	Selected by	College	IBL rookie statistics
					PPG	RPG	APG
2005	Local	Ponsianus Nyoman Indrawan	Bimasakti Nikko Steel Malang	University of Brawijaya	?	?	?
2017	Foreign	DeChriston McKinney	'CLS Knights Surabaya	Arkansas Tech University	11.3	10.6	0.6
2018	Foreign	DeAngelo Hamilton*	Satya Wacana Salatiga	Washington State University	N/A	N/A	N/A
2018	Local	Sabda Ahesa	Siliwangi Bandung	University of Notre Dame Australia	3.0	2.0	0.0
	Foreign	Martavious Irving	Siliwangi Bandung	Kansas State University	20.31	5.44	3.63
2019	Local	Nikholas Mahesa	Louvre Surabaya	Harapan Bangsa Institute of Technology	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Foreign	Savon Goodman	Louvre Surabaya	Shaw University	0.0	0.0	0.0

Note : * The player didn't play in IBL Seasons

• NBL Official Site
• The site of Indonesian Basketball
• IBL Official Blog