JAKARTA: A free rock music concert meant to promote peace and social harmony ended abruptly with rioting and police warning shots, reports said yesterday. At least six people were reportedly injured.
Veteran rocker Iwan Fals, whose regime-baiting songs were banned by former dictator Suharto, tried to calm the 100,000-strong crowd with a nationalist anthem as people began throwing stones and bottles in the sports stadium where the show was being staged.
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