Students leave council building

MEDAN, North Sumatra: Dozens of university students left the provincial council office here yesterday after occupying the building overnight to express their dissatisfaction with the government.

The students from 14 universities were given a ride in trucks provided by the North Sumatra Military Command back to their respective campuses.

"They were taken away after we persuaded them to go home," Maj. Gen. Ismed Yuzairi, chief of the military command, told The Jakarta Post.

The students spent the night in the office building after staging a fiery protest Saturday calling for the People's Consultative Assembly to hold an extraordinary session.

They also urged an investigation into former president Soeharto's alleged abuse of power and misuse of state funds. (21)