Don’t overreact to clash police chief tells foreigner workers

MIRI: Sarawak police have called on Indonesian workers from different ethnic backgrounds in the state to keep calm and not to overreact to Monday’s violent clash between Bugis and Bima workers in Batu Niah resulting in the death of three of them. 

State Police Commissioner Datuk Talib Jamal said the incident in the oil-palm plantation in the Niah-Suai district was not due to ethnic misunderstandings or religious issues even though it involved workers from two different Indonesian ethnic groups.