How Violent Conflict Occured in Bitung
Police and authorities are setting up security strategies following clashes in Bitung. It has the potential to become a religious conflict.
Riky Ferdianto
December 11, 2023
CLASHES in the city of Bitung, North Sulawesi, on Saturday, November 25, is still traumatic for RA, 9 years old. Her father, Hamdani, said that his fourth-grade child has remained anxious in the past two weeks. “Many other children are also psychologically troubled,” Hamdani, 49, told Tempo.
Riots occurred in the Sari Kelapa and Pasar Kanopi areas of Bitung City. Hamdani lives in the Sari Kelapa complex, only a few hundred meter
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