About 400 students from the students executive board (BEM) throughout Bandung who intended to hold a rally in Jakarta during Tuesday's presidential inauguration were prevented from leaving by police.

"Police blocked 10 buses which we had planned to use to go to Jakarta and they sent the vehicles back to their owners," said the coordinator of the All-Bandung BEM, Mei Susnato, on Tuesday.

The buses were sent back to their owners by police moments before the students were to board them at about 5 am, he said adding that the students had been waiting for the buses since 3 am.

"Some students had gotten on the buses but police asked them to get off again," he said. "We were going to tell them our aspirations. Why did we have to be disturbed?"

Bandung Police Headquarters' chief Senior Commissioner Imam Budi Supeno denied barring the students from traveling. "We did not forbid them to go to Jakarta, but why should they go at a time like this?" Supeno said.

Yudhoyono was installed as the president of the Republic of Indonesia for the second consecutive term for the 2009 – 2014 period on Tuesday. Students held numerous small rallies across the country on behalf of various causes.