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Indonesia dropped from World Cup bid list

"We have informed Indonesia that because they failed to provide a number of documented guarantees by the deadline, Indonesia is not any more a candidate for 2022," FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke told reporters.

"They are out of this process."

"When countries bid to host a World Cup, we ask for a number of government guarantees with regard to a number of things to make sure the tournament is organised is the best way possible as the International Olympic Committee also does," said Valcke.

"The deadline was December 2009 and we asked them many, many times but the government itself said their main concern was the people of the country and they would not support the bid committee."

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