Cops don't meddle in Satya Wacana

Cops don't meddle in Satya Wacana

SEMARANG, Central Java: Maj. Gen. Hariman AS, chief of the
Central Java and Yogyakarta regional police command, said that
the authorities will not interfere in the internal conflict
riddling the Satya Wacana Christian University in Salatiga.

The police will move in only if the law is violated on campus,
Hariman said here Thursday. "What we will do is catch anyone
breaking the laws," he said.

The authorities had to forcibly disperse a demonstration early
this week because the protest turned violent, he told
journalists.

Hundreds of students went on the rampage at the university on
Monday in protest of what they saw as the management's inability
to resolve the one-year-old bickering which has seriously
disrupted campus life.

More than a dozen students were reportedly arrested for
vandalizing campus property. The protesters are demanding that
rector John JOI Ihalauw resign and sacked lecturer Arief Budiman
be reinstated. (har/05)