Students mass in peaceful protest

Students mass in peaceful protest

DENPASAR, Bali: About 150 students staged a peaceful rally on
Tuesday at the Bali legislative council building to protest what
they called continuing state-sponsored violence against civil
society.

Six student groups from Udayana University, Warmadewa
University and the Denpasar College of Arts joined forces under
the banner of the Bali Students' Alliance (AMB) in a protest that
lasted for three hours.

The protest was triggered by an incident last week in which
Denpasar Police officers attacked dozens of protesting students
commemorating the 1998 fatal shooting of Trisakti University
students in Jakarta.

"The attack is a blatant example of how the politics of power
and the paradigm of violence still prevail within our state
apparatus," said Wayan Gendo Suardana, the field coordinator of
Tuesday's rally. --JP