While the two initially had separate rivals, the creation of Indonesia’s League 1 altered the course of soccer. The two sides began to find themselves in heated exchanges.<\/p>\n
Things continued to escalate to the point that a police presence became a necessity. After the separation of the two teams into East and West divisions, the rivalry intensified. Then, in 1988, the two teams and League 1 agreed to implement mandatory segregation of the teams’ fans during matches.<\/p>\n
That wasn’t the end of it, though. Two years later, an Indonesian musician used Persebaya’s Tambaksari Stadium to introduce a new album.<\/p>\n
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During the concert, Persebaya supporters accused Artemania’s followers of taking over the arena and overpowering the music by loudly singing Artema FC songs. Riots broke out between the two groups after the concert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In 1992, Sepultura, a Brazilian heavy metal band, made a stop at Tambaksari Stadium as it toured Indonesia. This time, Bonek blocked Artemania’s entrance. This also resulted in riots.<\/p>\n
Issues have continued since then, one of which even cost an Indonesian soccer player his career after he was hit in the eye with a rock. Civil rivalries can be healthy for competitive sports. However, Saturday’s riot was neither civil nor healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A soccer match in Indonesia on Saturday ended in the worst possible way. There were at least 125 deaths when thousands of fans of the Arema FC club burst onto the field after a 3-2 defeat to Persebaya Surabaya at the Kanjuruhan Stadium in the city of Malang. The situation spiraled out of control when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":235191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,21],"tags":[81913,82842,81179],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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