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Students demand Lemhanas and Golkar be disbanded

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Detik - May 21, 2001

Bagus Kurniawan/HD, Yogyakarta – Around one hundred students from various universities in Yogyakarta, Central Java staged a demonstration in front of the Yogyakarta Provincial Legislative. They demanded the disbandment of the National Resillience Institute (Lemhanas) and Distric Military Command (Kodim) because they are part of the Indonesia Military's (TNI) political institution. TNI itself must have been professional and back to their barracks.

In their action started at 10am local time, Monday, the students which grouped in the Yogyakarta Students' Struggle Committee staged a long march about 1.5 kilometres of Tugu Intersection before arriving at the Yogyakarta Provincial Legislative on Jl Malioboro.

In the student's opinion, Lemhannas must be disbanded because that's an extrajudicial institution. While Kodim has been an extraterritorial for TNI. "We also demanded to purge civil beuracracy from the military roles," said Gunawan, an orator from University of Janabadra.

Several other issues to speak out in the oration to mention among are they demanded to bring former President Suharto into court immediately and the Golkar's disbandment. In regards to the people issue, the students demanded to hike the workers' wages immediately and provide the cheap education for the people.

In regards to anticipate the clash be occurred with another masses, they prepared themselves by bringing wood stick to prevent from certain counter-group of masses using violence in their counter-action which have occurred recently in Yogyakarta.

The demonstration has caused no traffic jam and the students were guarded by around 12 security personnels from the Yogyakarta police unit.

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