Student protest mars Boyce visit

Student protest mars Boyce visit

BANDUNG: Student protests marred U.S. Ambassador Ralph L. Boyce's visit to Padjadjaran University in Jatinangor, Sumedang in West Java on Tuesday.

About 50 students from various universities in Bandung, grouped under the Bandung chapter of the National Student Forum, lashed out at what they said was an arrogant country which often meddled in other nation's affairs.

The students particularly rejected U.S. allegation that Indonesia was a terrorist hotbed.

Boyce was invited as a speaker to a seminar titled Islam and Religious Tolerance in the United States, jointly held by Padjadjaran university's faculty of social and political sciences and the United States embassy in Jakarta. -- Antara