INDONESIA will be barred from hosting any Olympic events until it removes a ban on Israeli athletes, the International Olympic Committee said today.

Athletes from Israel have been denied entry to Indonesia for the ongoing World Gymnastics Championships, and the IOC has responded by saying it will end all dialogue with Indonesia over staging the Olympic Games, the Youth Games or any other IOC-related event until it changes its policy.

The IOC also said it would advise international sports federations not to let Indonesia host any of their events unless the situation changes, and encouraged those bodies to adapt their qualification criteria to guarantee access for all athletes regardless of nationality when assigning their events to host countries.

It has previously been reported that the Indonesian capital Jakarta was considering a bid for the 2036 Olympic Games, but the IOC’s anger over the position the country’s government has taken on Israeli athletes appears to have severely damaged those hopes.

The Indonesian Olympic Committee and the International Gymnastics Federation have also been called to IOC headquarters in Lausanne to discuss what has happened at the World Championships in Jakarta, an IOC statement said.

The Israeli Gymnastics Federation made a request to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for urgent provisional measures to enable its athletes to compete at the championships, but the request was rejected.