Jakarta – Renewed outbursts of campaign violence in several Indonesian towns, including the capital, left scores of people injured, reports said yesterday. In Jakarta, scuffles involving supporters of the ruling Golkar party and backers of the two opposition parties, broke out in at least three places, the Kompas daily said.

Hundreds of construction workers in an apartment project were involved in a stone-pelting match with a passing convoy of Golkar supporters, leaving at least one injured and five cars damaged.

Similar stone-throwing incidents broke out between members of Golkar convoys and roadside spectators at two separate places in East Jakarta. A university student was stabbed in one of the incidents.

In Yogyakarta, at least three incidents of violence between Golkar supporters and those of the Muslim-led United Development Party (PPP), broke out on Thursday, leaving scores of houses and motorcycles damaged, said the Media Indonesia daily.

One man was injured seriously in a stabbing and another was hit in the head by a brick after a Golkar convoy clashed with residents in Rejoso, near the town of Pasuruan in East Java on Thursday.

In Kudus, in the northern part of Central Java, police said they arrested 27 PPP supporters following violence which left four policemen injured, the Antara news agency said. The clash took place after security officers tried to block a convoy of thousands of PPP supporters from entering the town.

The three official parties – the PPP, the ruling Golkar party and the Indonesian Democracy Party (PDI) – are contesting the election in which President Suharto's Golkar is the hot favourite.