{"id":1245052,"date":"2022-01-26T21:37:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1245052"},"modified":"2022-01-26T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T02:37:25","slug":"indonesia-machete-wielding-warring-tribes-spark-nightclub-fire-kill-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indonesia-machete-wielding-warring-tribes-spark-nightclub-fire-kill-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia: Machete-Wielding &#039;Warring&#039; Tribes Spark Nightclub Fire, Kill 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findonesia-machete-wielding-warring-tribes-spark-nightclub-fire-kill-18%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1245052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nightclub-fire-Sorong-West-Papua-Indonesia-Jan25-22-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rival ethnic tribes in Indonesia\u2019s West Papua province <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benarnews.org\/english\/news\/indonesian\/18-killed-indonesia-west-papua-communal-nightclub-brawl-01252022135332.html\">clashed<\/a>&nbsp;in the early morning hours of Tuesday, sparking a nightclub fire that burned 17 people \u201calive,\u201d BenarNews reported, adding that an 18th victim died from stab wounds sustained in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began just before dawn on January 25 in the West Papua port city of&nbsp;Sorong after \u201cmembers of the Pelauw tribe attacked and killed a 20-year-old ethnic Kei man in Sorong,\u201d BenarNews reported, citing local police and officials.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFriends of the victim immediately chased the perpetrators, to retaliate,\u201d&nbsp;Sorong Police Chief Ary Nyoto Setiawan said on Tuesday, adding that the vengeful group ended their chase near a local karaoke club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClashes broke out. The mob burned down the karaoke place, and two vehicles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rival members of the \u201cwarring\u201d tribes wielded machetes while slinging arrows and Molotov cocktails at each other during the violent episode, Indonesian National Police spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/overseas\/01\/25\/22\/at-least-19-dead-after-clash-fire-in-west-papua-club\">told<\/a> reporters on January 25.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[The] investigation into this case is still ongoing to identify the perpetrators, including the masterminds from the two warring groups,\u201d&nbsp;Ramadhan said at a press briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Setiawan&nbsp;described the altercation as \u201ca prolonged conflict from a clash on Saturday [January 22],\u201d in a statement shared with media outlets on January 25. The Sorong police chief further revealed the suspects in the brawl \u201cwere not ethnic Papuans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 50 percent of West Papua\u2019s population is comprised of people \u201cwho moved there from other islands,\u201d according to BenarNews, an Asian news service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benarnews.org\/english\/about\">affiliated<\/a> with the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia. Tuesday morning\u2019s clash specifically involved members of ethnic groups from the Maluku Islands, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia directly west of the province of West Papua. The Maluku Islands capital of Ambon is located roughly one hour by ferry from Sorong.<\/p>\n<p>The ethnic conflict in Sorong on January 25 \u201cdid not involve locals from remote West Papua, where there is a long-running insurgency,\u201d the Indonesian National Police clarified on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/indonesia\/2021\/12\/20\/papuan-rebel-fights-a-war-without-weapons-from-a-land-without-food.html\">referring<\/a> to an often violent separatist movement in Indonesia\u2019s easternmost regions that launched in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Setiawan said his local police force had attempted to quell tensions between the opposing Maluku Island tribes before their dispute caused a Sorong nightclub to burn down on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried to mediate between the groups, as we called their leaders before last night\u2019s clash,\u201d the Sorong police chief told reporters on January 25.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian soldiers from a Sorong military base joined local police officers on January 25 to patrol the city\u2019s streets in an effort to prevent further violence, BenarNews reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rival ethnic tribes in Indonesia\u2019s West Papua province clashed\u00a0in the early morning hours of Tuesday, sparking a nightclub fire that burned 17 people \u201calive,\u201d BenarNews reported, adding that an 18th &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}