The idea of organizing the South East Asia Peninsulas Games appeared in 22 nd,May,1958.On that day,Representatives of Myanmar,Laos,Malaysia and Thailand had a meeting and SEAP Games was came out by the proposal of Thaiand Representative.
Objectives are :
1) To improve the friendship among SEAP Countries.
2) To compete with higher level in Asian and Olympic Games using their Skills and perfomance to Youth in the region.
Therefore,in 1959,to celebrate the 1 st SEAP Games was decided in Bangkok, Thailand and to organize it between the period of Asinn and Olympic Games once in every two years.
It was appropriated to celebrate 3 rd SEAP Games in Phnom Penh,Cambodia in 1963,but failedin various reasons. In 1965, the 3 rd SEAP Games was heldin kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.From that time on,it was held regularly once in twice years.
The 9th SEAP Games in 1977, kuala Razak suggestedletin lndonesia,