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on the streets of jakarta hundreds of high school students armed themselves ready to fight. these brawls go on for hours leaving a trail of blood and battered body. police parents and principals are the last to explain the barman's. i'm steve chapman on this episode of one of many as we go to the front lines of these teenage battles to find out why so many kids are willing to fight and even kill their fellow students . to visit. yeah. we'll be out they say. make you. judge your band. my.

d.v.d. . yes the kids like you need. street rules among students have been a custom an intern easier for decades but these regular fights between rival schools known as tower on have now evolved into something much more sinister. over the past five years more than one hundred thirty pupils have died in nearly eight hundred drools in and around jakarta. the school should be about learning and growing as people as a place to plan violence are not a student. problem skokie is my best to leave the classroom. they call even. and stage straight back tolls things. despite the premeditated crashes sometimes even for the death.

mohammed billy abil loved football and when he left school he wanted to join the army. he started high school last september but his new school. didn't want to send her son back but she had no choice it was the only school in the area that she could afford. one i knew when you. talked. about this how. did you.

get. to grow up in a. fairly wanted to fit in so when an after school brawl was arranged via text messages he headed straight. to a fight just like this one. when the violence attract an audience of fellow students who post then videos online. on the day billy joined the fight his song he too was outnumbered. they lost and he was stopped several times. and.

nearby residents tell me about that day. night after night with them. and whenever. you know you know. they first saw billy honda back of the family completing heavenly. money and your fellow man let us have you here you know you have all my love. for all you know what i don't know. but without the power and somebody that if that be a part of my jacket about that i. don't like. a lot of going up with a gun but i get that. billy's home his mom sensed something was terribly wrong but. it wasn't.

no longer was alone going to. go about. that i wanted to. call on all the door so. bill in the glad that the to cut that i'll play that upbeat. billie had been stabbed in the chest abdomen and buttocks by the time the paramedics arrived he bled to death. and anyone. his loss has devastated his mother leaving her desperate to find out why it happened and. she even thinks she knows who did it. you have

a name on this post it knows why do you think this boy is responsible. if. the police have done anything to find. the little laugh. my lawn and his mates are in the twelfth grade of another jakarta high school and the seasoned street fighters. young were you when you watch your first off i say how about why those of our school. if they. are. the last spot the bunk why do you get involved

in street brawl and why is it that you get so young signed up. for danny yang c. m m m m but i'm. playing a little bit about how you arrange for me for the five things on. my c.s. it is how to. one moment i knew i wasn't a boy long but i want peace but i don't know right now so don't. you know take on me if i were. in traffic club jakarta the parks are a place to exercise and relax. but for the street fighters they offer something more. decades the kids did yesterday to fight with fists but nowadays they use weapons and one of the school kids was telling me they hide those weapons in parks like this because i can't take them to school and this is his and

this is why kids are now dying. told me a little bit about the food the weapons that you use the choice of weapons and you would you know that it just sort of seniority that you have to have two years certainly and following that no. one need food so what i. mean and i want to kind of last me. from something any young tom what i owe you know. being an unusual. i don't believe how this when i you know when you think out of you know i'm snooty but on. the seniors tell the younger students the time around is a rush of passage is how you prove that you're now a man. is it the intention to kill the other kids just stop what you're talking

about. but it's not going. to why do you think some people are being told is that just going too far people doing it when they shouldn't be and i taught our you know. so many you know among the many many what i'm most innocent also sneak up on them. in another neighborhood in jakarta another family grieves the loss of a teenage son. and. was seventeen when his group was ambushed by a rival school gang in twenty fourteen. when his mother. heard the news she rushed to the hospital.

and. was. listed as critical he was due to have an operation at nine the next morning. he died just hate the police were quick to investigate audi's matter two boys were arrested and

charged. he's mother went to court and so was an convict and sentenced to three years in prison. do you feel there was some sort of justice for i'll do them. that now but alas i don't but. yeah that would. be subpoenaed yeah what i called up but even when i'm young i was out of them when i got up but one thing up and what i was if you will or more you. don't know. that we've been at it but i got myself. up i mean what a couple i get. to sort of knock on. a little tells me how she asked the police to look for the other youths involved in her son's fatal beating she says the officers told her she would have to pay for

the investigation to continue. i arranged to meet a police spokesman and ask him about his claim but your reaction to the ha yeah i mean. if the moment i want to sound i am going to get that press out of and i got out of three of us actually it had to do us to get our job done so that we see our sourcing i've got out of my own. i don't know for me she did a lot of the guys i just want to get farther. along with able. to draw on what the. of the get out of the box and when i watch it on a couple of the i won't be bad at it and i like the way or whatever i want to show another one but when he died. to the modern i am with. you.

while the police deny asking for money to work on a case they do up make it that it's often difficult to gather evidence to convict street brawlers including those who killed audi billy. hostess because. of a name that she was given at the time is the chief suspect by the police can you tell if anybody in particular has been arrested has been questioned there being a line at one of the grounds for the guy there that i was. there with or. another be at the other block where and if they do that is i guess actually yeah yeah. yeah yeah. so as actually going to i was actually i look at it that i have and so that sounds like a tie then does that mean she's very unlikely to see anybody. brought to justice for his death. by john darwin take it as was in may.

with the police struggling to punish the offenders i go to richard carter high school to ask the principal how he deals with the street brawls. level then but about in my state i think he was happy but unless he didn't have the police. then. on top of the hour this is why we. watch stop seeing. it'll be someone i'm the one with any yet and i wonder when younger yet he. but he is the first to admit they are struggling to understand why fight start in the first place. but the friendship turned into a gang see. him or see. it but.

not obviously the random former pupil are a freshman believes he knows the route he's written a book about his own street brawling and talks to students about how it's through his life of course. i would run a policy of it among them but. not in anger and i'm going to end up. setting in a bit of what i'm yellow. i would i'm glad that it was a bit of a yes but it's. not my idea of the. media and that's about all that anybody. being in want to do can actually. be someone had a gun i must follow. her but i am falling but i mean my one. young man what we've given. i think is about prestige about rite of passage to

being a man how do you stop that when it's part of the needs and culture. of another now what are you going to day or last. day i didn't go out while i get up with. my guy in the last minute i'm young. enough for life and i know it's about ghosts of what was on the bottom by data but i mean. that i am indebted to them not enough on what i would add to our development will be needed i'm. going to i am in every moment. then get a mommy thought now i would i'm glad that it was a. problem. i would i mean. two months. by the end of august is one year i'm done i will arnett on i mean i'm not but i know that's all i'm able and that's on. this group psyche means greater

confidence and violent. and sometimes death leaving families broken. i come back to billy's neighborhood after a phone call from his mother. she's given up waiting for the police to find her son's killer but she struck down a friend of the boy she thinks is responsible. she's also to go with her she wants to confront his friend to see if she can find out why the boy hugh believes the son lives and then we can go there. then i think. we will the rest of the way to the friend's house. or billy's mom pleads for his help.

so this is the friend. over the boy she believes killed her son he's now promised to take her to think about boyd to see the guy she wants to confront. the friend who was also in the brawl when billy died doesn't want to be identified but he agrees to show her the house of the suspect. and one was to get to you so i was not going to look at it i'll be happy i don't have to give a damn i like what we put our eyes. well i don't i will i know that i'm sorry that he was about. with my mom i don't understand. what i was

hired back and we honestly i don't mean to do it bad i'm not saying. so but god i want to. say i'm not going to but the time will be one of so you know. we had into the district asking for the house of the boy she wants to confront but the friend who promised to help now says he's not sure where the boy lives so we go to the community leaders house last year i was a. member of the club he has i don't. know what and why i'm just. because the district leader to ask for help at that would want to talk about. all of them all of that are not good not at. all i'm going to force you to go yes

that was a bottom on. all your depression. yeah. it wasn't on. the phone but it was on. the problem with the bottle the. fact. that none of us knew about was a double. that i was. going to have. to tell the boss. but just moments after being told the boy she believes killed her son has been arrested she discovers it's not him. i'm. not that person. not to. do that i need to look up what you got

it was fine. for you see that. happen you don't want to see i don't i'm one of. the community leader then suggests we meet the district leader he spoke to on the phone to see if he can help track down this family. is now pinning all her hopes on the district leader. but he's not pleased to see house with her. and his mother starts to rick's plain how she can only find some peace if she can confront the boy the police say killed her son but the latest says unless she has the correct address he cannot help. he is going to help.

me. i'm sorry sorry. very. there seems to be a general acceptance of these street brawls by many here a rite of passage for teenage boys this attitude needs to change if these fatal brawls are to be stamped out early in the schools and the planes are really struggling to work out why the tower on the breaks out and indeed how to stop these

boys from street fighting but that doesn't always the compulsively have an impact and get through to them if. we've lost the song and the fight saying. yeah. you know i know you. have heartbreak biology's mother.

but the power. and. after around a little found a school i say he'd written on the very day he died it sounds like a premonition. was like my final after. this afternoon was to scariest. after my life i don't feel the pain anymore. if only i could turn back time. december on al-jazeera we look back at twenty seventeen through the eyes of five families who've been affected by some of the big stories of the year in an increasingly polarized world people in power sheds light on the darkest abuses of

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