Students demand police apology

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)