'Long way to go' for Indonesian football - a year after deadly stadium stampede which killed 135 people


Pictures of victims displayed on a wall at the Kanjuruhan football stadium, where 135 people died in a stampede on October 1, 2022, in Malang, East Java. The Indonesian stadium where 135 people died in October 2022 in one of football's worst tragedies lies empty but intact, despite government pledges to demolish it and rebuild a safer site. - AFP

JAKARTA (AFP): The Indonesian stadium where 135 people died last year in one of football's worst tragedies lies empty but intact, despite government pledges to demolish it and rebuild a safer site.

The red and blue stands of Kanjuruhan Stadium outside Malang city serve as a reminder to some of how little has changed since football fans -- including 43 children -- were trampled or suffocated to death in the October 1 stampede.

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