Students jeered at for mistaken yell

JEPARA, C. Java (JP): Onlookers became choked with spluttered laughter when some of the about 100 students peppered their noisy demonstration here on Saturday with an obsolete demand.

"Down with Soeharto! Down with Soeharto!" the students shouted in reference to the former autocratic ruler who stepped down in May following massive student demonstrations.

Antara did not say what caused the confusion on the part of the students, who were marching along the thoroughfare to express anger and sadness over the death of their colleagues last week in the Semanggi cloverleaf incident in South Jakarta.

"I just could not help laughing when some of the demonstrators yelled 'Down with Soeharto'!," a resident told the news agency.

"Maybe the misguided protesters were not really students, or maybe they were students who just did not have enough information." (swe)