Students demand newspaper shutdown

Students demand newspaper shutdown

MEDAN, North Sumatra: Hundreds of students at Medan State
University (UNIMED) staged a protest on Wednesday in front of the
office building of Pos Metro daily, demanding it be closed.

The demand was made by the students after the daily ran
several stories that, the students claimed, had tarnished the
image of the university, including an allegation that a UNIMED
lecturer harassed 10 female students.

Spokesman of the UNIMED Student Senate Budi said that the
stories were unsubstantiated and that the daily had to be shut
down; at the same time, the management of the daily said that it
was looking into the students' allegations. -- JP