A mosque in Jakarta where a man was beaten to death by a mob for stealing money from a donation box. Photo: AFP A mosque in Jakarta where a man was beaten to death by a mob for stealing money from a donation box. Photo: AFP
A mosque in Jakarta where a man was beaten to death by a mob for stealing money from a donation box. Photo: AFP
Indonesia
Asia /  Southeast Asia

Why Indonesia’s vigilante mobs keep delivering brutal ‘justice’

  • Man who stole equivalent of US$130 from a mosque becomes latest victim of lynching
  • World Bank estimates there were 34,000 vigilante attacks involving serious injury or death between 2005 and 2014

Topic |   Indonesia
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 8:35pm, 16 Nov, 2018

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A mosque in Jakarta where a man was beaten to death by a mob for stealing money from a donation box. Photo: AFP A mosque in Jakarta where a man was beaten to death by a mob for stealing money from a donation box. Photo: AFP
A mosque in Jakarta where a man was beaten to death by a mob for stealing money from a donation box. Photo: AFP
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