Indonesia Twitter Fight Turns Violent

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While most Twitter users would probably click the “unfollow” button if someone bad-mouthed them on the social media Web site, a high school student in Makassar, South Sulawesi, sliced her antagonist’s cheek with a box cutter, seriously wounding her.

The victim, K.P.F., 16, was hospitalized with a one-centimeter-deep, four-centimeter-long gash running from her upper right lip to her right cheek after a quarrel with a fellow student, N.H., turned ugly on Tuesday.

Tamalate subdistrict police chief Adj. Comr. Amran Allobaji said on Wednesday that N.H. had been arrested.

“We charged her under Article 351 [of the Criminal Code] on assault, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison,” he said. “About the motive, the perpetrator was enraged because she was being constantly mocked on Twitter.”

Abdul Majid Kasim, principal of the high school where the two girls go, said the case should be settled out of court.

“For now we are holding meetings between the family of the perpetrator and the family of the victim so we can settle this,” he said on Wednesday.

The school, he said, had not decided whether to sanction any of the students involved in the incident. “Maybe [K.P.F.] said something that was out of line and [N.H.] just couldn’t stand it anymore,” he said.

K.P.F. had to get eight stitches for her injury, but she was released from the hospital immediately after that on Tuesday.

The case is also another example of the police arresting juvenile offenders and placing them in detention cells with adult criminals.

Two teenager brothers died in police custody in Sijunjung, West Sumatra, in December, highlighting the need for juvenile offenders to be treated differently from adults. Police insist the boys committed suicide.

The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) told the House of Representatives on Tuesday that there should be special detention centers and correctional facilities for underage offenders.

The House is currently deliberating an amendment to the Law on Juvenile Justice, which would put more emphasis on alternative sentencing for children, instead of incarceration.

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