
A court in Indonesia has sentenced two match officials to jail after finding them guilty of negligence over a crush in a football stadium that left 135 people dead, in one of the world’s worst sporting disasters.
The crush took place in October 2022 when a tense match in Malang, East Java, between bitter rivals Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended in chaos, with a pitch invasion and police firing volleys of tear gas. Amid the suffocating smoke, people rushed for the exits only to find some of them locked resulting in a deadly crush.