Officials mobilized in the second half

GIACARTA, KOMPAS.com – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Contrast) found a strange thing in the tragedy of the Kanjuruhan stadium, Malang, on October 1, 2022.

131 people are known to have died as a result of the stampede after police on duty fired tear gas.

After conducting an investigation, Kontras claimed to have obtained 12 initial results. One of these is the particularity of the mobilization of the apparatus in Kanjuruhan, including the Brimob that brought the tear gas.

“We found that the deployment of security forces or the mobilization of security forces carrying tear gas was carried out in the middle of the second round,” Kontras Legal Division Head Andi Muhammad Rezaldi said at a press conference on Sunday. 9/10/2022).

“Indeed, in the context or situation at the time there were no threats or potential security disturbances. So we saw something strange,” he said again.

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Furthermore, in the match between Arema FC and Persebaya, only the home fans arrived.

This conditioning is purposely done in order to minimize the possibility of clashes between the fans of the rival club.

Kontras, on the other hand, also highlighted the issue of the tear gas shot, which was carried out immediately without paying attention to the initial stages.

Andi cited the regulation of the chief of the national police No. 1 of 2009 according to which in terms of the use of force, there are the first steps that must be taken by the apparatus before arriving at the decision to fire tear gas.

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In addition, tear gas was thrown on the stands, especially the southern ones. The fans in the area, in fact, are not in a state of chaos.

“In the context of this case, the police officers have not gone through these stages. What are the stages that need to be overcome in the first place, for example by using force that has a preventive impact,” Andi said.

“In the second stage, there was also (presumably) a verbal command or voice of warning, but that was not done,” he said again.

It is known that the problem of the use of tear gas has in fact become one of the concerns of the tragedy at the Kanjuruhan stadium, Malang.

Indeed, the American media The Washington Post conducted an investigation into the use of tear gas in the tragedy that killed 131 people.

Komnas HAM, in his investigation of a number of bodies, said that most of the causes of death for 131 victims were asphyxiation and tear gas.

Meanwhile, the National Police have named six suspects related to this The Kanjuruhan tragedy. They are AHL (Director of LIB), AH (President of Panpel), SS (Head of Security), Wahyu SS (Chief of Operations Polres Malang), H (Deputy 3 Danyon Brimob Polda Jatim) and BSA (Kasat Samapta Polres Malang).

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