2016 Pekan Olahraga Nasional

Pekan Olahraga Nasional XVIII
Host city	Bandung
Events	43 sports
Ceremony venue	Gelora Bandung Lautan Api Stadium

2016 Pekan Olahraga Nasional is the nineteenth edition of Pekan Olahraga Nasional. It will be held in Bandung, West Java in 2016. It will be the first time for Indonesia's third largest city of Bandung to host the games in more than forty years. Bandung hosted the fifth edition of Pekan Olahraga Nasional in 1961. Province of West Java is the second most successful team in the history of the Pekan Olahraga Nasional by being the overall champions of the games for three times,in 1951, 1953, and 1961.

Bids

West Java was given the rights to host the 2016 Pekan Olahraga Nasional by acclamation of the members of National Sports Committee of Indonesia. Banten was the only other applicant which submitted its bid for the games.^[1][2] North Sulawesi showed its interest in hosting, but later decided to cancel it.^[3]

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