Six students injured in brawl

Six students injured in brawl

JAKARTA (JP): Six students were injured in a brawl on Monday
night in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, when students from two
private universities got into a dispute after a music concert, a
police officer said on Tuesday.

City police spokesman Lt. Col. Zainuri Lubis said the brawl
took place at around 8 p.m., when dozens of students from the
National Institute of Science and Technology (ISTN) in Srengseng
Sawah in South Jakarta went to a concert at the Dharma Persada
University campus in Duren Sawit.

"The Dharma Persada students got offended and attacked the
students from ISTN when some of the visitors pelted stones at the
campus," Lubis said.

The brawl stopped only after nearby residents managed to drive
away fighting students and force student leaders from the two
universities to meet to settle the problem.

"There was a misunderstanding between the two groups of
students during an earlier concert on Sunday night," Lubis said.

The wounded students, who were all from Dharma Persada
University, were rushed to an Islamic hospital in Pondok Kopi but
were discharged after being treated.

"None of the ISTN students were injured as they may have
prepared themselves for the attack," Lubis said.

Lubis said no arrests were made from the brawl and the case
was being investigated by East Jakarta Police. (emf)