Reflections on supporters of the Asian Games 2018
Hello everyone, lovers of sports all over the world Once Croatia was overthrown by France in the 2018 World Cup final, the camera highlighted Luca Modric's face, the captain of the losing team who won the sympathy of global football fans. The face looked very tired. There is a sadness. That is the natural expression that appears on every face of any sports athlete who is suffering defeat.
Similar sadness was also shown by supporters. After the camera highlighted the midfielder's face who also played at Real Madrid, the turn of the sad faces of Croatian team supporters highlighted the camera. A child cried near their parents who also looked sad. That is a sad cry, that is sadness that touches the heart of television viewers.
The contrast with the scene was a mass fight that often took place in the country, after one of the team's supporters indulged their frustration at the defeat of the team they were championing. If not a fight between supporters, anger that emerged after the football match was vented by destroying the stadium where the match took place.
Jakabaring Palembang Stadium, last July became the object of football audience vandalism after the Sriwijaya FC match versus Arema FC. The trigger for the destructive action of supporters can vary. This time the factor is the anger of the supporters of the Management of Sriwijaya FC, who let their star players leave for other clubs.
The Sriwijaya FC supporters were upset to see their beloved team collapsed when Arema was overthrown. Hundreds of new stadium seats were installed for the 2018 Asian Games arena, removed from being thrown at security officers. The average vandalist is a school-age teenager. Which is more tragic, deadly events often occur in brawls between supporters of the football team. Until when do soccer lovers in the country follow in the footsteps of their colleagues in developed countries, which wreaks sorrow for the defeat of the favorite team is enough to shed tears?
It seems to take time to reach the stage of psychological evolution from aggressive expression to melancholy. Psychology theory has long explained that the soul of the masses in public spaces is far different from the souls of individuals in private space. An angry person at home will behave differently when he is in a mass crowd room who are equally angry by more or less similar factors.
Individual emotions are basically the same, according to the psychologist. Everyone has a tendency to be angry with those who hurt him. The desire to respond spontaneously to opponents is also shown by football players everywhere. Harvard University researcher Ronald Kessler said, explosive anger was mostly done by young men. The intensity is higher than those who are older or those who are female.
By looking at the theory, security officers can focus their attention on every mass crowd event for male youth groups because they are potential sources of brawls. Apparently, strict punishment deserves to be applied to the perpetrators of mass riots. Unfortunately, law enforcement against perpetrators of mass riots is not implemented.
In a case of vandalism at the Jakabaring Gelora last month, based on the fact that more than 300 stadium seats were damaged, the police should have arrested dozens of perpetrators of destruction, which were indicated. But only two people were convicted. Even that is a very mild sentence in the form of being obliged to report. Vandalism crimes that damage public facilities are not as bad as individual criminals. Besides, prisons in the country are already very crowded with many criminals. If the masses in a fight must be put in jail, the situation becomes more complex.
The preventive way to prevent mass brawls is through psychic education conducted at home, the scope of the community and at school. The phenomenon of angry crowds is not a typical symptom in the sport. The social and political sphere is still a place of release for angry groups of people. What can be damaged by the sports stadium can also be a place of worship or other public facilities.
The theory of classical psychology teaches, before the basic instinct in the form of anger, the aggressiveness is released to the victim, open channels that can be engineered to channel the animal's instincts.
Democracy provides public spaces that are angry through protests, protests and elections as a channel for human desire. Various adequate sports facilities in various public places need to be provided for teenagers who are still passionate about channeling their energy.
Those who have the instinct for fighting need to be channeled to clubs of martial arts, boxing, wrestling. It seems that in this country there are not many such facilities so many teenagers have not had the right place to channel their basic instincts. All these preventive measures need to be part of the reflection on ways to control destructive actions by the audience.
Welcoming the 2018 Asian Games event, the call to be a civilized audience in any sporting event is inevitable. Especially for the football branch, PSSI fans do not need to overreact when their beloved team will be defeated by the opposing team, which is very tough as shown by South Korea and Japan in the 2018 World Cup in Russia. As host, lovers and supporters of Indonesian athletes were enough to shed tears when opponents defeated him in the biggest sports race after the Olympics.