Yayuk Basuki once brought glory to Indonesia in the Asian Games. The two golds she won in women’s doubles and mixed doubles with the gold bagged by boxer Pino Bahari helped catapult Indonesia to the seventh position in the 1990 Beijing Asian Games.

That in fact was the last time Indonesia, which ended as the runner-up when it hosted the event in 1962, cracked the top 10 in the final medal count in the games participated by athletes from al