Students demand Marzuki resign

Students demand Marzuki resign

JAKARTA (JP): Dozens of students from the Alliance of
Indonesian Students Formal Bodies (Alfonso) rallied at the
Attorney General's Office on Thursday, to demand Attorney General
Marzuki Darusman step down.

The students accused the attorney general of failing to uphold
law and justice.

"Corruption should be declared the public's biggest enemy and
the supremacy of the law should be placed above all else in the
country," a student said in a speech.

The students waited for Marzuki in the office compound for an
hour and threatened to search the building if the attorney
general failed to appear.

The demonstrators eventually dispersed at about 3 p.m. without
meeting with Marzuki.

Another group of protesters arrived while the Alfonso
activists were still in the compound. However, the police kept
the some 100 demonstrators from the City Society away from the
building.

The demonstrators from City Society, students from Trisakti
University, Atma Jaya University, Indonesian Christian University
and several other universities, told Marzuki to bring current
state officials who also served under the New Order regime to
trial for human rights abuses.

"Marzuki should clear the government of those people. If he
fails, he should resign," the demonstrators said while displaying
a banner that read "Dismiss Golkar".

Later in the day, some 50 people from the Betawi People's
Union arrived to demand the Attorney General's Office not mix
politics with the legal process. (bby)