Students protest politics laws

Students protest politics laws

BANDUNG, West Java: Hundreds of students from the Bandung
Moslem University held a campus demonstration yesterday to demand
the government revoke its laws on politics.

The laws stipulate, for instance, that there are only three
political groupings: Golkar, the Moslem-based United Development
Party and the nationalist-Christian alliance Indonesian
Democratic Party.

The students also called for a regeneration of national
leaders and demanded that the government abolish its security
approach of dealing with the public.

Noted poet W.S. Rendra was present during the demonstration
and read some of his popular poems, including Doa Seorang
Rangkasbitung di Rotterdam (The Prayer of a Rangkasbitung Man in
Rotterdam). (17)