Yogyakarta – Clashes broke out here Sunday between followers of opposition politican Megawati Sukarnoputri and a rival party after some 30,000 Megawati supporters had held a peaceful rally, witnesses and police said.

The violence, in which several people were injured and two motorcycles burned, erupted in a face-off with members of the rival Moslem-oriented United Development Party (PPP), the witnesses said. Residents said PPP members, whose office is opposite the Yogyakarta headquarters of the Indonesian Democracy Party (PDI) which Megawati once headed, emerged from their building late in the afternoon.

The PDI rally in this central Javanese city was held to mark the anniversary of the 1996 government-orchestrated ousting of Megawati as leader of the PDI. The move prompted a riot in Jakarta in which five people were killed, 149 wounded and another 74 went missing, according to human rights groups.