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Brawl breaks out between residents in South Jakarta
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A group of mostly teenage protesters clash with police officers in Penjaringan, North Jakarta, during a recent riot. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak)
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brawl between residents of Tambak, Central Jakarta, and Manggarai, South Jakarta, broke on Sunday afternoon after someone from Tambak threw a firecracker into a residential area in Manggarai.
The brawl broke out at 5.45 p.m., according to Tebet police precinct head Comr. Nurdin Arrahman.
“It led to residents throwing rocks at each other, but no physical contact occured,” Nurdin said as quoted by wartakota.tribunnews.com.
Most of the residents involved in the brawl were teenagers, he said.
Because of the incident, the police temporarily closed Jl. Tambak in Central Jakarta where the brawl took place, jamming traffic around the area.
(Read also: City, police to tackle inter-communal brawls)
After 7 p.m., the situation returned to normal after the police dispersed the crowd using tear gas.
Afterwards, officers from Tebet and Menteng Police precinct searched the street for weapons that might have been used in the brawl. (dea/wit)
