Students protest rising prices

Students protest rising prices

UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi: Fifty university students and
more than a dozen vendors demanded Thursday local legislators
help check the escalating price of basic daily needs.

In a rally at the city council office, they warned that they
would resort to "their own means" if in the next four days
legislators failed to meet their demands.

Kallo Bandoso, deputy chairman of the city council, met with
the demonstrators who were grouped in the Action Committee of
Indonesian Students and Youths (KO-AMPI), and promised to meet
the students' demand.

Kallo told the students that it is part of the council's duty
to ensure prices remain fair and affordable. (30)