Choirul Anam on Indonesia’s human rights body, Komnas HAM, said if tear gas had not been fired “maybe there wouldn’t have been chaos.”
The incident occurred in the Indonesia league first division match between Arema and Persebaya Surabaya.
Indonesia has lifted all restrictions on imports of Japanese food products that were imposed in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011.
“We started this peace mission with good intentions. Hope things will get easier.”
Mr Widodo will first attend the G7 Summit in Germany before travelling to Moscow and Kyiv.
“Ukraine and Russia are friends of Indonesia.”
