Indonesia stadium disaster

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🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Indonesia continues to search for answers and comfort after more than 130 fans died at a football match. There appears to have been a deadly combination at the Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java, of over-crowding, tear gas being fired by police and blocked exits during the ensuing panic. The president of Fifa, the game’s world governing body, called it a “dark day” for football. Host James Reynolds has spent the past week hearing from survivors, who describe how they feel lucky to be alive and now want nothing more to do with football. He also brings together two Indonesian sports broadcasters for their assessment of what went wrong.

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0:00.0	This is the sound of crowd signs.
0:02.4	We shoot a laser beam at this atom.
0:05.0	Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?
0:07.8	Oh, there's a wasp in there.
0:09.3	Yeah. Perhaps possibly the most disgusting thing I heard this morning.
0:13.5	But it's one of the nicest fun facts you're going to hear today.
0:16.4	So here, Maggie, holding a doughnut.
0:18.4	What are you going to do with that?
0:19.4	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:22.3	Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service.
0:25.4	And this is BBC I.S. Conversations on the Indonesia Stadium Disaster.
0:33.4	Hundreds of flowers and candles have been placed outside the gates of the Canjuder Hand Stadium.
0:39.0	It's where more than 130 fans died as thousands surged towards the exits,
0:44.6	many of which were locked.
0:46.3	I've been speaking to survivors and also to two Indonesian football commentators
0:50.6	about the police response.
0:52.1	If you have 200, 300 people rushing towards you,
0:55.2	onto the pitch and you hold a canister of peer gas
0:58.4	and you shoot the tear gas towards the crowd
1:01.4	and then to the stands, that is a disaster.
1:05.3	A dark day for football.
1:07.1	Those are the words of the president of FIFA, the game's world governing body.
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