Hooligans cause Rp 2.4 billion loss

Hooligans cause Rp 2.4 billion loss

BANDUNG: State railway company PT Perumka suffered an
estimated financial loss of Rp 2.4 billion after soccer hooligans
broke thousands of windows in a war of stones on April 3 and
April 4.

Perumka president Edie Haryoto said here on Tuesday that a
total of 3,431 windows on a number of executive and economy cars
were smashed when hooligans on trains pelted houses along their
route and the residents responded in kind. In addition, various
facilities on 43 stations along the route from Jakarta to
Surabaya in East Java were also damaged.

Edie regretted the government's decision to take home the
soccer fans, many of whom traveled to Jakarta to attend the
recent Indonesian Soccer League playoffs without adequate
financial means, by train rather than by ship as he had
suggested.

Nine supporters died when they were hit by a train in Lenteng
Agung, South Jakarta. Another was electrocuted in Jatinegara in
East Jakarta, while two others fell off a train roof. Many of the
hooligans also looted shops when the trains pulled into stations.
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