Student brawl damages vehicles

Student brawl damages vehicles

JAKARTA: A brawl between mechanical engineering and civil
engineering students at Pancasila University in Jagakarsa, South
Jakarta, on Saturday, resulted in nine motorcycles and one car
being damaged.

"The students burned nine motorcycles parked in the
university's front yard and damaged one car belonging to a fellow
student," said Jagakarsa Police chief of detectives First Insp.
Endang Adi.

Endang said all Jagakarsa Police officers were deployed to the
scene to pacify the students, who threw stones and glass bottles
at each other. No casualties were reported.

Traffic was tied up for several hours because of the brawl.

Police said rivalry between the two groups over the student
committee chairmanship for the campus orientation program for new
students was the cause of the brawl.

Endang said the university management had decided to suspend
all campus activities for several days. -- JP