Future bureaucrat named brawl suspect

Thu, 03 Mar 2005, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

SUMEDANG, West Java: The Sumedang police department in West Java
named on Wednesday Hasyim Siregar a suspect for inciting a riot
involving thousands of students at the country's main civil
servant academy, the Public Administration Institute (STPDN).

Sumedang police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Yoyok Subagyono said that
the police had questioned 11 witnesses who were injured in the
incident -- apparently triggered by a dispute between 22-year-old
fourth-year student Hasyim and second-year student Simon Salos,
and later turned into a riot between gangs that sided with the
two combatants.

However, Hasyim will be charged with minor assault, and could
face a three-month jail term if proven guilty.

Violent incidents are nothing new at STPDN, which is notorious
for imposing military-style discipline on the country's future
civil servants. It made headlines in 2003 when video footage was
aired nationwide of a student, Wahyu Hidayat, being beaten to
death by older students. -- JP

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