Police fired warning shots but failed to stop the youths from decapitating their victim. Most foreigners in the town had fled or were planning to leave, including a British theatrical group that had been holding drama workshops to encourage ethnic harmony. Gruesome clashes involving Malays as well as other indigenous groups against settlers have flared periodically in the region. At least 260 people, mostly Madurese, were killed in 1999. Yes, in Indonesia, only the elite socialist ruling body, the police and the military are allowed to keep and bear arms.
Gun possession is illegal, period.
In Indonesia, your only choice is to be a better swordsman than the mob who comes to dismember you and your family, and to have a mob of friends with you who are better at sword fighting than those who come to do you in. Unless of course you want to join the thriving black market and risk prison. And now, the subjects under the regime are simply dismantling human bodies, slashing government slaves, and removing people's heads. Mob rules' mentality would never happen here. They must've been sleeping during the Rodney King riots while televised newscasts aired showing mobs of people killing their fellow Americans in the streets and burning long-established productive citizens' businesses to the ground.