Jakarta – Indonesian security forces fired rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing students protesting in a provincial town in Borneo, injuring at least 14 people, a report said Tuesday.

The students then set ablaze a motorcycle and damaged three cars, all belonging to the security officials, the online service Detik.com reported.

About 800 university students took part in Tuesday's protest outside the local council building in Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan, 675 kilometers northeast of Jakarta, Detik.com said.

The students were demanding that Aspar Aswin, the region's governor, to step down. They accused Aspin of failing to bring progress and peace to the province, where a bloody ethnic conflict in 1998 between indigenous people and immigrants from Madura, an island in East Java, left thousands dead.

Detik.com said two policemen and 12 students were injured in the protest that turned into a scuffle as students began to throw rocks at the police.

The students then left the parliament building but launched a sweep against military and police vehicles in a main street. They burned one police motorcycle and smashed two police vehicles and one army car. Contacted by telephone, police confirmed the clash but refused to give further details.

[On June 15 the Jakarta Post reported that a student was killed during a second peaceful protest on June 14. The student, identified as Syarifuddin, 20, collapsed outside the local council building when his fellow protesters started to leave the site. Witnesses said they heard a gunshot. The results of the postmortem have yet to be disclosed. Syarifuddin suffered serious wounds to the head, but doctors declined to confirm that the injuries were caused by a bullet - James Balowski.]