The riot has extremely upset the local citizens. At the beginning, it was a parley to mediate the conflict between Lia and Rini, two women who've been friends for quite long, but then it turned into a quarrel. Lia and Rini, the source of the problem, during the brawl were seen hiding behind fences on Pirngadi street.
"I just got back home when I noticed the commotion on the street and there were two frightened women," said Triawan, a citizen of Bubutan.
Chief detective of North Surabaya district police, Police Commissioner Attendant Dolly A. Primanto, explained the chronology that led to the riot. He said that for the last week, Lia, from Simo Kwagean Buntu Lor, and Rini were mocking each other on Facebook. Lia then complained to her husband, Tonny Wijaya. Tonny then told his older brother, Paulus, about it.
Afterward, stated Dolly, Paulus who is now still wanted by the police mocked Rini. To put an end to the matter both parties decided to settle it peacefully and meet on Pirngadi street. Rini, the girl from Ploso, took her boyfriend, Steven Liang, and they went by a Toyota Avanza car, while Lia came with her husband Tonny, Paulus, and dozens of others on motorbikes.
When the two parties met, it's still unclear who started it, but the meeting suddenly turned into a brawl which was triggered by an argument. Due to the uneven numbers, Steven became the living sand-sack for Tonny and Paulus. Steven's car, parked by the street, was also vandalized by Tonny and his group.
Seeing the riot, the locals came to stop it. But, several people who were vandalizing the car got away. The North Surabaya district police, whose headquarter was only 500 meters away, came to the location.
Seeing the police, Tonny who was suspected to have beaten up Steven hurried to his motorcycle, a Yamaha Mio Soul with the license plate number L 6915 NH, and sped to the east. However, Tony's speeding bike tripped over a speed-bump before crashing down on the street. Tonny, having broken his leg on the accident, was apprehended by the police and brought to Dr. Soetomo public hospital.
"We declare Tonny as a suspect involved in the brawl. He's still hospitalized," said the police chief of North Surabaya, Police Great Commissioner Attendant Djoko Hariutomo, accompanied by Dolly A. Primanto, Saturday.
After declaring Tonny as a suspect, the police then caught Wahyuda Mokoagao, 23, a citizen of Setro. Before the investigators, Wahyuda confessed of having smashed the windows of Steven's car and beaten Steven with a helmet. "I just came along," he argued.
For this case, the investigators have declared Paulus as a criminal for being involved in the fight. "Both groups, the suspects and the victims were wrong to try to work out peace in a remote place. They could've got the police the mediate for them." said Police Commissioner Attendant Dolly A. Primanto. (MIF/C17-09)
Editor: jimbon
Source : www.surya.co.id
Monkey can speak?
“This is the first evidence we have in animal communication that they can combine, in a semantic way, different calls to create a new message,” said Alban Lemasson, a primatologist at the University of Rennes in France. “I’m not sure it has strong parallels with humans, in the way that we will find a subject and object and verb. But they have meaningful units combined into other meaningful sequences, with rules imposed on how they’re combined.”
Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific meanings in a paper published in November. It detailed the monkeys’ basic sound structures and their uses: “Hok” for eagle, “krak” for leopard, “krak-oo” for general disturbance, “hok-oo” and “wak-oo” for general disturbance in forest canopies. A sixth call, “boom,” was used in non-predatory contexts, such as when calling a group together for travel or arguing with neighboring groups.
Impressive as that was, however, it was still relatively one-dimensional, not much different from verbalizations heard in many animal species, from other non-human primates to songbirds. The team’s latest findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describe something far more complicated: syntax, or principles of word sequence and sentence structure.
Though some researchers have ascribed syntax to animals, it’s never been formally demonstrated — until now.
“People have criticized the use of ’syntax’ to describe animals just because they produce sequences of sound. They say that each unit has no meaning, that no rules explain how they’re combined,” said Lemasson. “Here we have rules of combination.”
For example, male monkeys called “boom boom” to gather other monkeys to them, but “boom boom krak-oo krak-oo” meant that a tree or branch was about to fall. Adding a “hak-oo” to that sequence turned it into a territorial warning against stray monkeys from neigboring groups. Multiple “krak-oo” calls added to an original “krak” meant not only that a leopard was in the area, but that it posed an immediate threat.
The research raises the question of whether early humans or our primate ancestors combined calls in a similar way, turning a small set of sounds into a rich verbal reportoire. According to Lemasson and to Jared Taglialatela, a chimpanzee communication researcher at Clayton State University, it’s too soon to say whether the monkey talk is proto-human.
“I’d shy away from that. But this is certainly syntax,” said Taglialatela, who was not involved in the study. But he described the proto-human question as secondary to a far more intriguing possibility: that the potential for language is widespread in the animal kingdom.
“People like to draw lines and make boxes and put animals inside them. I don’t like to do that. There are differences and shades of grey. And when you take the time to collect data in a way that allows you to recognize complexity and patterns, than you find evidence of them,” said Taglialatela.
Lemasson’s analysis was based on a vast set of recordings, gathered from 10 monkey groups observed for two full years in their African rain forest homes. Lemasson, who is further investigating Campbell’s monkey talk by measuring their reactions to recorded calls, suspects that a dense jungle environment drove the evolution of syntax.
Since the monkeys had trouble seeing each other, they compensated by talking. The same compensatory dynamic could operate in other species, such as whales that live in mostly sunless waters, he said.
“We can imagine that this ability has evolved in other lineages,” said Lemasson.
Editor: jimbon
Source : wired science
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