Six held in student demo

Six held in student demo

JAKARTA (JP): Six people were arrested and five others
injured during a demonstration yesterday by 200 people on the
University of Indonesia's Jl. Salemba campus in Central Jakarta
to commemorate the 40th day after the Ujungpandang riot in which
three students died.

Central Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Abubakar Nataprawira
confirmed the arrest of the students, saying that the police are
still investigating whether they are really students.

The six were arrested for allegedly being the instigators of
the demonstration, a police source said.

The four-hour demo, which started at 11 a.m, began with some
of the demonstrators holding a mass prayer in the Arif Rahman
Hakim mosque in the university complex, while the Christian
participants held similar prayers in a yard next to the mosque.

The students then moved to the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute
(LBH) on Jl. Diponegoro.

A riot erupted as the officers beat the students while trying
to grab their banners. The police and students threw stones at
each other. Five demonstrators and a Paron tabloid photographer,
Wahyu Purwadi, were injured in the clash, which took place in
front of the LBH front yard building.

Official statements said three students were killed in the
protest against the increase in transportation fares in
Ujungpandang, South Sulawesi in April. (jun)