One year on, still no closure for kin


Painful memories: Nur reacting as she sits beside the grave of her son Jovan, who was among the 135 people killed in the stampede at the Kanjuruhan football stadium on Oct 1, 2022, in Malang, East Java. — AFP

Holding buckets of water, Cholifatul Nur sprinkles flowers planted at her young son’s grave and wipes clean the stone slab where a scarf of his favourite team is draped, a year after his death at an Indonesian football stadium.

Fifteen-year-old Jovan Farellino was one of 135 people killed after a match in the East Java city of Malang, with many dying from suffocation or being trampled in one of the deadliest disasters in the sport’s history.

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