Students demand police apology

YOGYAKARTA: Hundreds of Muhammadiyah I private high school students and teachers here rallied at the provincial legislature to protest the police shooting of one of the school students Kahfi Hasan Alfi.

The protesters urged the legislators to help them make the provincial police chief Brig. Gen. Logan Siagian apologize for the incident, which took place after a basketball game on Wednesday evening.

"The police must publish their apology on the front page of local newspapers for a week. If they fail to meet our demand, a bigger move will follow," a students leader, Abdullah Mukti, told the legislators.

Kahfi was wounded in his right shoulder from a stray bullet during the commotion which occurred when police were trying to disperse a motorcade involving the high school students after the basketball match at Kridosono Sports Hall.

"The police chased us all of sudden although we did nothing wrong. We were just heading for our school," another student, Muhammad Natsir, said. (swa)