Councilors asked to resign

BOGOR (JP): Five hundred supporters of the ousted Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) leader Megawati Soekarnoputri went to the Bogor Legislative Council on Saturday to demand the resignation of councilors from the government-backed faction of the PDI.

"The councilors are not from PDIs Bogor branch office," the protesters' spokesman M. Sahid said.

The protesters also urged Bogor police chief Col. Abubakar Nataprawira to resign for his alleged involvement in the takeover of the PDI headquarters in Jakarta on July 27, 1996.

They accused Abubakar of helping the government-backed PDI faction to storm the headquarters when he was Central Jakarta Police chief.

The delegation urged councilors who received them to demand that the Bogor mayor to dismiss corrupt officials and to give more attention to small traders.

As usual, the councilors who received the protesters promised to channel their complaints to the relevant authorities.

Meanwhile, graduates of Bogor Institute of Agriculture held an pro-reform festival featuring songs and poems on their campus grounds.

"We want to remind students that reform has not yet finished," Agus Priyono, a member of the organizing committee, said. (24/jun)