Jakarta – Hundreds of students have rallied in one Indonesian city and six are on hunger strike elsewhere demanding comprehensive political and economic reforms.

Some six hundred students staged rallied at two campuses in the West Java capital city of Bandung Monday and six went on hunger strike in Yogyakarta. The students at Bandung's Pajajaran and Pasundan universities staged an orderly protest on campus grounds after being blocked by anti-riot squads from marching to the provincial parliament building, a local police officer said. There were no more protests today.

In Yogyakarta, Central Java, six Gadjah Mada University students entered the second day of a hunger strike on campus to demand lower prices and an end to racial violence, a witness said.

The banner-waving students were wearing white bandanas on their heads in a gesture of solidarity, a university staff member said. "They have set up tents and been sleeping there since yesterday," he said. The hunger strike will continue until their demands have been heard or until doctors declared it was impossible for them to continue.

In Bandung, West Java provincial police chief said the students had been banned from marching in the streets because they disrupted security, adding that the ban would stay in force as long as necessary.

Meanwile, in Pekanbaru, capital of Riau province in Central Sumatra, 20 students went to the provincial parliament to demand touch action against hoarders of basic goods.