Assaulted student reports mayor

JAKARTA: A student of the Indonesian Christian University (UKI) in Cawang, East Jakarta, reported on Tuesday Mayor Kusnan Abdul Hakim to the police over the eviction of street vendors around the campus on May 17.

Representing Victor Djami who was still being treated at UKI Hospital for a fractured skull, his mother Ariance Djami also reported Kramat Jati Police chief Comr. Dedy Tertra and head of the municipality's public order agency Lukman Syahrul.

The family reported the officials for assault and abuse of power.

"He's still in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit," said Ariance at the Jakarta Police Headquarters.

Witnesses said that UKI students hurled stones at the officers who evicted the street vendors around the campus in Cawang. The officers were reported to have retaliated.

According to the Djami family's lawyer Jhonson Panjaitan, joint operations between the police and the public order officers often ended in violence. "This is not the first time that civil servants have used violence," he said. -- JP