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'COLLECTIVE MISTAKES'
With the country seeking answers, the spotlight is on the police, but experts say the true picture is more complicated.

In trying to pre-empt risks, the police had banned fans of the rival Persebaya Surabaya side from attending and asked for the "high-risk" match to be held during the day, when policing is easier, according to Akmal Marhali, coordinator of private football watchdog organisation, Save our Soccer (SOS).

Surabaya is about 100 km (60 miles) north of Malang and matches between the two East Java sides have often been tense.

Akmal said the match went ahead at night with organisers printing 42,000 tickets for a stadium designed to hold only 38,000. No tickets were however sold to Persebaya fans, police said.

"We cannot only blame the police. These are collective mistakes," Akmal said.

In the match, Arema went two goals down to Persebaya in the first half but managed to draw level before the break. The home side conceded early in the second half, and its 3-2 defeat to the bitter rival on its home turf was the first in 23 years.

Home fans swarmed onto the pitch as the game ended, while the players rushed to the changing rooms, according to video footage.

Awang, a 52-year-old Arema fan, said he left before the final whistle. He said he took shelter in a nearby shop as the chaos unfolded, and returned to the stadium later.

"What I saw was terrifying. There were dead bodies in the prayer room, 17 bodies as I remember," he said, "Many of my fellow supporters were crying hysterically."

Football hooliganism and violence is not new in Indonesia. SOS data shows that 86 people have died in soccer-related violence in Indonesia since 1995 – but the severity of the latest tragedy has shocked the nation.

Kurniawan, the commentator, said that in the past violence at soccer matches had failed to bring about changes, but this time it had to be different.

"Our mentality needs to change because managing football is like managing a country. This is a mirror, a portrait of our nation," he said.

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