Brawl between STPDN students injures 11<\/p>\n
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung<\/p>\n
Eleven youths were injured in a lunchtime brawl that erupted
\namong Public Administration Institute (STPDN) students in
\nSumedang, West Java, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A witness said the fight was sparked by a dispute between a
\nsecond-year student, identified as Simon of Papua, and a fourth-
\nyear senior Hasyim Siregar of North Sumatra earlier that morning.<\/p>\n
\"Simon was caught in the act smuggling in a bottle of alcohol
\nduring a class. Hasyim warned him to dispose of the bottle and
\nSimon punched Hasyim,\" the witness, who would not give his name,
\ntold The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
News of the incident spread and more than 1,000 fourth-year
\nstudents jeered Simon as he and other juniors, numbering about
\n3,000, began lunch in the campus dining room.<\/p>\n
A food fight denegrated into a full-scale brawl as seniors
\nbegan throwing plates and glasses at the juniors.<\/p>\n
The panicked juniors smashed the dining room's glass front
\ndoors as they tried to leave building.<\/p>\n
Dozens of lecturers intervened but could not could not stop
\nthe fight. They called the Jatinangor Police who broke up the
\nmelee.<\/p>\n
Eleven students were treated at the campus for injuries
\nranging from minor cuts and bruises to more serious wounds,
\nSumedang Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Yoyok Subagyo told the Post
\nafter visiting the clinic.<\/p>\n
Officers had moved all the fourth-year students off of the
\ncampus to prevent further clashes and questioned dozens of
\nstudents from various grades involved in the incident, Yoyok
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Violence is not new to STPDN, a state technical college that
\nproduces the country's bureaucrats. The institute, which is
\nnotorious for imposing military-style discipline on its students,
\nmade the headlines in 2003 when SCTV television channel broadcast
\nvideo footage of a junior student, Wahyu Hidayat, who was beaten
\nto death by seniors.<\/p>\n
The Sumedang District Court sentenced 10 STPDN students to
\nbetween seven and 10 months' jail for the accidental killing of
\nWahyu.<\/p>\n
Earlier in 2000, a junior STPDN student Erie Rakhman also died
\nfrom beatings by his seniors. Seven students involved in that
\nviolence were also jailed.<\/p>\n
After the 2003 killing, the government decided to move the
\ninstitute to Jakarta, where it would share facilities with the
\nInstitute of Administrative Sciences.<\/p>\n
However, the merger will only occur after the remaining
\nstudents in the Sumedang campus graduate.<\/p>",
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