With a vision of improving the nation's fortune, Indonesia has started to increase its budget on training and developing its young football players, resulting with a new, promising era of Indonesian football. The U-16 and U-19 teams did have a well-promising performance in both 2018 AFC U-16 Championship and 2018 AFC U-19 Championship, both managed to advance to the quarter-finals before losing to Australia and Japan, respectively. At the same time, the U-23 team also managed a respected performance at 2018 Asian Games with only brought down by the UAE U-23 team on penalty shoot-out. Many Indonesians began to feel enthusiasm for the changes made to the Indonesian football.