Jakarta – Indonesian police Tuesday arrested about 100 students protestors calling for fresh elections and the scrapping of the military's political role, a witness said.

Police rounded up members of the Student and People's Committee for Democracy before they reached the national Elections Committee (KPU) building in Central Jakarta.

"[We] reject the election results carried out by followers of the New Order ... Repeat the elections under true democratic terms," read two out of students seven point demands.

They also charged that the military's dual role had been "the cause for violations in human rights as well as democracy."

Hundreds of anti-riot police and troops roughly loaded the students onto two trucks, after they protested without a police permit as required by law. They had marched from the state University of Indonesia's Salemba campus about two kilometers away.