Councilors asked to resign

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)