Tragedi Kanjuruhan dalam Konteks Sepakbola Indonesia
Oleh: Andy Fuller. Diterjemahkan oleh Fiky Daulay. Sepakbola dimotori oleh persaingan. Persaingan-persaingan ini berada di dalam dan luar lapangan: di antara penggemar dan para pesepakbola. Semangat para penggemar melejitkan nilai hak-hak tayang pertandingan besar di televisi. Stadion-stadion diperjualbelikan untuk memenuhi kapasitas dan sports bar termasuk pubs penuh ketika penggemar fanatik terpaku pada pertandingan sepakbola. Antar-kota, atau […]
Pembantaian or Tragedi
*by Andy Fuller, Utrecht University Ikhwan, a teenage fan of Arema, told his mother and sister that he was going off to a Qur’anic study group on the night of 1st October 2022. Of course, he was given permission by his mother to do so. He hadn’t returned the following morning though. He wasn’t always under […]
PERSIS Solo: Official Statement on the Kanjuruhan Tragedy
*translated by Andy Fuller The recovery from this tragedy will be a slow and complicated process. There are many stakeholders. Lots of listening needs to be done. For the moment, I’m not interested in listening to officials, bureaucrats and politicians. I’m not convinced by Mahfud MD: I saw him on Mata Najwa and he was […]
The disposable lives of Indonesian football fans
by Andy Fuller* This tragedy was entirely avoidable. And as usual, those who are culpable are likely to escape without appropriate punishment. This tragedy has long been on the cards. But, even its likelihood of eventuating wasn’t enough for the authorities to act. In this case the relevant authorities are: the Indonesian police (Polri), the […]
Statement from the Bonek Writers Forum on the Kanjuruhan Tragedy
This article was first published at Sejarah Persebaya. Translated by Andy Fuller* The Kanjuruhan Tragedy which happened during the Arema FC vs Persebaya game which has resulted in the death of 127 people (at the time of writing) is deeply concerning. The event was triggered when the police fired tear gas into the grandstands when […]
Amina Maatoug & the fine art of chilled running
On any given Wednesday at Leiden Atletiek, Amina Maatoug, cuts a diminutive figure. Softly spoken, she makes her way through the loopscholing drills with balance and focus. Then, during the technieklopjes, he speed is revealed. Amina’s feet lightly touch the ground, before springing further down the track. Her co-ordination, refined technique, being testament to the […]
Running and (inadvertently) Winning: Jolijn Swager
Jolijn has a habit of winning races. If not winning, then at least popping up smilingly on the podium. Some of us spend our whole amateur careers without enjoying the glory of flowers, vouchers or an envelop filled with a few euro notes. But, little beats the satisfaction of gaining a PB and steadily improving […]
Bonek dan Semangat Perjuangan
oleh: Andy Fuller Memang agak sulit menjadi seorang ‘pengamat sepakbola Indonesia’, kalau tinggal di luar Indonesia itu sendiri. Tetapi, derasnya berita dan posting di sosmed menjembatani jarak di antara ‘di luar’ dan ‘di dalam’ Indonesia. Aktivitas para Bonek dari Surabaya (dan di kota lain) sering mengingatkan saya betapa ramainya wacana sepakbola di Indonesia. Sepakbola memang […]
Bonek against gang violence
Yamadipati Seno, 6th February 2020. First published on Mojok. All of us already know that it is useless to rely on the police to solve the problem of klitih (roughly translatable as ‘gang violence’) in Jogja. The police take so long to act: perhaps because it is owing to bureaucracy or some other reason. Almost every […]
Bonek Writers Forum: Words are Weapons
by Oryza A. Wirawan. Originally published at Berita Jatim & Sejarah Persebaya How does a community of supporters try to encourage a critical understanding of football through writing? We can use the case of the Bonek Writers Forum (BWF), founded on 6th December 2017, as a means to understand this. This community has a fluid form. […]