Save The Ticket

I went to Gelora Bung Karno Stadium (GBK Stadium) on Sunday (26/12) with my friends that Handika, Adam Apriliyadi and Bayu Nugroho. We were hunting ticket for Final AFF Cup 2010 Indonesia VS Malaysia. That morning when we went to GBK, the cloud in the sky was very dark. We left with motorcycles after shubuh praying in Madani mosque. First, we pass the street when cars and motorcycles still quietly in the road. Then we were driving motorcycles fastly, and decided toward east ticket box in GBK.

Okay, we were arrived in GBK complex at 5 o’clock. Before we were entering GBK complex, we pass the street around GBK and saw many people had been there since last night. Many supporter came to GBK and among there were from Malang city, they built a tent and were camping in front of Al-Bina Mosque, still at complex GBK. Then we entered complex GBK and had arrived at east ticket box.

We were waiting the ticket box was open since morning. The ticket queue was long at the time in radius 500 meter. At 10 o’clock was occur little chaos, because many people from left side were attack a ticket queue and it was became very crowd at there. Others chaos factor was the ticket box had not opened by local committee.

until more than 4 hours ago since morning we were waiting. My friends, Handika was tired and need an oxygen. So, he exited from the ticket queue.

We were still waiting at there until 1.30 pm –two half hour-, the ticket box was not also opened and then supporters was angry. The situation was chaos again and even riot. After that, supporters came into GBK Stadium . My friends and I went also into stadium. After we came into stadium, and what happened in there? It was surprised that many people had mess out at the field stadium. It was beyond my prediction. In there are a man throw tickets to supporters who angry and need tickets. I saw a sea of human in there.

After that, came about hundreds entourage of police in riot location from Central Jakarta Police Resort which were led directly by Police Chief Resort. Later, they were curbing riot. Finally, the police asked us to got out from into stadium and each person can bought one ticket with orderly. Yes, we save the ticket for Indonesia.

-Husni Mubarak