Both men worked for Arema FC — one of the two teams playing in the Oct. 1 2022, match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java. The game ended with a stampede that killed 135 people after police fired tear gas into the crowd.
Arema FC Organizing Committee chair Abdul Haris, left, the club's security chief Suko Sutrisno, center, walk to the courtroom to attend their sentencing hearing at a district court in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Thursday, March 9, 2023.Arema FC Organizing Committee chair Abdul Haris, left, the club's security chief Suko Sutrisno, center, walk to the courtroom to attend their sentencing hearing at a district court in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Thursday, March 9, 2023.
Match official Abdul Haris was sentenced to 18 months in prison and security officer Suko Sutrisno was sentenced to 12 months by the court in Surabaya,Both men worked for Arema FC — one of the two teams playing in the Oct. 1 2022 match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java. The game ended with a stampede that killed 135 people, including some children, after police fired tear gas into the crowd.
Following the incident, a fact-finding team appointed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo that included government officials, security experts and soccer officials. The team found that the tear gas had been used indiscriminately and that police had used"excessive" measures, Benar News The team also found out that the police on duty that day didn't know that tear gas was a banned crowd control measure by FIFA, soccer's governing body. The stadium may have been over-capacity for the match, investigators also found.
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