Jakarta Police asks stadium to install CCTV cameras

The Jakarta Police has requested for surveillance cameras to be installed at ticket counters at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium to improve the monitoring of supporters entering the stadium.

“If we use surveillance cameras, it will be easier to prove cases such as the burning of a counter the other day. The recording can be used as evidence to arrest the perpetrators,” police operational bureau chief Sr. Comr. Agung Budi said Thursday as quoted by tempo.co.

A day before the SEA Games soccer final between Indonesia and Malaysia on Tuesday, a group of dissatisfied Indonesian die-hard soccer fans torched ticket counter 4 at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium based on information that tickets to the game were sold out.

A similar incident occurred in 2010 for exactly the same reason when Jakarta hosted the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Cup.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Baharudin Djafar suggested one way to prevent supporters from becoming enraged was to publicly disclose the ticket quota for such games.

“Early information about the tickets availability would help soccer fans be more prepared,” he said.