Jakarta – Fresh violence has broken out in a small town in the Indonesian province of Central Java, with rioters damaging scores of shops and offices, reports received here said Saturday.

Hundreds of people went on a rampage in Parakan, Temanggung district, on Thursday, pelting and damaging 35 shops, banks, houses and government offices there, the Kompas daily said. There were no reports of casualties or injuries in the new riots, the daily said.

The violence followed a Moslem gathering for prayers in the town, Kompas said, adding that order was restored Friday morning. The report gave no other details but the local leader of the influential Islamic movement Nahdlatul Ulama has appealed for calm and condemned the violence as against Islamic ethics.