Probe into councillors must stop: Protesters

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