Supporters Make It Chaotic In The Persik Vs Arema FC Match, PSSI Chairman: There Must Be Sanctions

GIANYAR - The riot of supporters occurred in the third week of Liga 1 2023/2024 which brought together Persik Kediri against Arema FC, Saturday, July 15. Luckily, the riot was successfully suppressed.

PSSI General Chair Erick Thohir said there was a sentence following the chaos involving supporters at the Brawijaya Stadium, Kediri, which.

"I'm sure there will be (sanctions)," said Erick while reviewing the selection of the U-17 national team in Gianyar Regency, Bali, Sunday, July 16.

"Last night there was another riot, Persik-Aremania, suddenly there was a guest supporters who came with a clear FIFA agreement with the Indonesian government, the League agreement with the Police had no guest supporters," he continued, as confiscated from Antara.

However, Erick has not disclosed details of the aftermath of the riot between the supporters and the PSSI Disciplinary Commission is investigating the incident.

PSSI together with competition operators, the New Indonesian League made a policy in the form of a ban on visitors to come directly to the stadium in the Indonesian League 1 competition for the 2023/2024 season.

The policy was issued after the tragedy of riots at the Kanjuruhan Stadium, Malang, East Java which killed 135 people on October 1, 2022.

Erick, who is also the Minister of SOEs, then reminded supporters that the World Football Federation (FIFA) was still monitoring Indonesian football for two years following the incident at the Kanjuruhan Stadium.

For this reason, he asked supporters to participate in keeping the atmosphere conducive as part of the transformation of Indonesian football.

The SOE Minister also supports that the Jambore Supporter program as implemented in East Java is intensified to strengthen relations and togetherness between supporters for the good of Indonesian football.

"If this (corruption) continues, there is no self-introspection, both from supporters, from the club, the team that is the guest committee, believes in me, (will) be punished. Do we want to be punished again?," said Erick.

In that match, Persik Kediri won 5-2 over Arema FC so that it raised Persik Kediri's position to ninth in the League 1 standings with four points.