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Brimob officer jailed over Kanjuruhan stadium crush
Last year's crush in Malang killed 135 people -- including more than 40 children -- after a 3-2 defeat for Arema FC by their fierce East Javan rivals Persebaya Surabaya.
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This picture taken on Oct. 1 shows tear gas released by police among people crowded in the stands after a football match between Arema FC and Persebaya at the Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java. (AFP/STR)
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court in East Java jailed a police officer for 18 months on Thursday over negligence contributing to one of the worst stadium disasters in the history of football.
Last year's crush in Malang killed 135 people -- including more than 40 children -- after a 3-2 defeat for Arema FC by their fierce East Javan rivals Persebaya Surabaya.
When supporters invaded the pitch of the Kanjuruhan Stadium, police fired tear gas, causing a deadly stampede.
The man jailed on Thursday, Hasdarmawan was a commander for East Java police's mobile brigade unit.
"(The court is) sentencing the defendant, Hasdarmawan, to one and a half year in prison," presiding judge Abu Achmad Sidqi Amsya told the court in Surabaya, East Java.
"The defendant failed to predict a situation that was actually quite easy to anticipate. There was an option not to fire (the tear gas) to respond to the supporters' violence."
The sentence was shorter than the three years prosecutors had asked for.
