Probe into councillors must stop: Protesters

SEMARANG: About 2,000 people calling themselves the Marhaen People's Alliance staged protest on Monday here, demanding local prosecutors stop a probe into a Rp 14 billion (US$1.5 million) corruption case involving Central Java councillors.

The protesters said the graft charges were politically motivated and should be halted.

The protesters were supporters of Mardijo, the former chairman of Central Java council from 1999 to this year and the former chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's Central Java chapter. -- JP