Djoko Tjiptono/Hendra & GB, Jakarta – Students grouped in the Golkar Disbursement Alliance (ABG) wanted to take over the Jakarta offices of the Golkar Party but apparently have not been successful. Around 100 security officers from the Jakarta city police are on alert at the site. Head of the Jakarta city police, Inspector General Mulyono Sulaiman, is there too.

ABG, an alliance of student groups, moved from the University of Indonesia in Salemba to the Golkar Party's offices on Jl Pegangsaan Barat, Central Jakarta, Friday. The ABG groups are: the People's Network, Students Action Front for Reform and Democracy (Famred), City Forum (Forkot), National Democratic Student League (LMND), All-Indonesia Forum and University of Indonesia Students' Action Front.

As observed by Detik, several people in the vicinity of the site in civilian clothes also looked to be safeguarding it. "Well, go ahead if they want to guard it.

That's because they think this is their place which must be defended. We as the police are here just to help safeguard by preventing violence," said Mulyono to journalists in front of the office.

Mulyono also said the demonstration had been caused by the tension within the political elite. "It effects the masses as well as the police's duties. In fact the police have many other duties besides overseeing demonstrations," he said.

Meanwhile, the situation around the Golkar Party offices at 4.45pm local time is relatively calm. It appears the ABG will not be successful in 'claiming' or sealing off the offices as student groups were in Yogyakarta, central Java, earlier in the week.

Calls are rising for the Golkar Party which dominated Indonesian politics under former president Suharto be disbursed for it's political and economic crimes. The driving force of this movement are students.