Street justice

Indonesia's vigilante mobs deliver 'justice'

It was just after dawn prayers when the caretaker at a Jakarta mosque noticed a man stealing from the donation box, prompting a furious mob to beat him to death - for taking the equivalent of US$130.The lynching was one of hundreds of vigilante killings across Indonesia in recent years, highlighting a brutal trend driven by rising religious conservatism and low faith in a corruption-riddled justice system.Mob violence has also been aggravated by rapid urbanisation that brings together strange

17 November 2018
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