Indonesian Students Join Anti-Suharto March

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thousands of students marched towards the home of deposed autocrat Suharto on Wednesday demanding he go on trial for corruption as an opinion poll showed most people also want to dump his successor. At least 2,000 students rallied ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thousands of students marched towards the home of deposed autocrat Suharto on Wednesday demanding he go on trial for corruption as an opinion poll showed most people also want to dump his successor. At least 2,000 students rallied in central Jakarta, shouting "Suharto should go on trial immediately" as they headed towards his home in the elite area of Menteng. They were eventually blocked by hundreds of police and troops about one km (half a mile) from Suharto`s home but there were no signs of violence. Witnesses said the students looked well organised and linked arms, a practice they have increasingly adopted to keep out provocateurs. It is the latest rally against Suharto, the country`s president for 32 years until economic and social crisis forced him from office six months ago. Some analysts estimate Suharto and his family accumulated up to $40 billion during his long rule which ended in May. The government has promised to set up a team to look into his wealth and has already cancelled a number of lucrative state contracts with companies linked to his family and associates on suspicion of graft. A government minister said Suharto had handed over his lucrative charities, worth $500 million, to the state. Critics have accused the ousted leader of using the seven charities as a front for amassing wealth. Many doubt the current leadership, most of which came to power under Suharto, will be prepared to dig too deeply into possible graft for fear of incriminating themselves. The unpopular government of President B.J. Habibie has struggled to maintain a grip on power in the face of the country`s worst economic depression in some 30 years and mounting protests and rioting. At least 30 people have been killed in protests and riots in the past two week in some of the worst violence in the capital since May when at least 1,200 died. Indonesians complain of an increasing sense of lawlessness in the country where the once powerful military, its image in tatters, has difficulty keeping control. An opinion poll showed that people were looking to the opposition leaders to lift them out of crisis.

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