Soccer hooliganism reared its extremely ugly head in Indonesia once again yesterday with the death of one Persija Jakarta supporter at the hands of several Persib Bandung supporters — videos of which have gone viral online.

One video, taken right outside the Gelora Bandung Lautan Api (GBLA) stadium before the match up between traditional rivals Persija and Persib, shows a sea of Persib supporters surrounding one Persija supporter, identified as 23-year-old Haringga Sirla in the media. The disturbing clip shows Haringga being savagely beaten to a bloody pulp by Persib supporters as they chant songs telling him to “go home”.

Another video from the incident shows the Persib supporters — several small children included —  chanting “La ilaha illallah” (There is no God but Allah) while kicking and bashing Haringga as he lays on the ground.

We are not sharing either video here because of their extremely disturbing and graphic nature.

Haringga reportedly died at the location and Bandung Police say they have arrested 10 of his suspected assailants so far. Five of them have already confessed to assaulting Haringga though no charges against them have been announced.

According to the police, Haringga became a target of the suspects simply because they found out he was from Jakarta.
“At the time the victim was walking towards the stadium. Several Bobotoh (Persib fans) found out he was from Jakarta and then they beat him to death,” Bandung Police Spokesman M Yoris Maulana told Kompas yesterday.

West Java Governor and self-professed Persib fan took to Instagram to condemn the heinous attack on Haringga, calling the attackers “biadab” (savages) and closing his message with, “for me it’s better that the soccer league be abolished if it claims lives.”


Sumber: https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/lon...akarta-police/