Jakarta – More than 10,000 Indonesian students converged at a main flyover in South Jakarta on Monday to commemorate the shooting of seven students there two years ago, causing massive traffic jams along the city's main thoroughfare.

The students, from various universities in and around Jakarta, converged at the Atmajaya Catholic University just a few metres from the Semanggi flyover starting at around noon.

Wearing the colours and carrying the flags of their respective universities or student organisations, they occupied a three-lane avenue and a slow lane in front of the university. By dusk, at least 10,000 students had massed there.

The students sang hymns and pro-reform and pro-democracy songs and listened to a succession of speakers who mostly demanded justice for the shootings. They were scheduled to watch a film depicting the demonstration on November 1998 and the clashes between security forces and students that killed seven students and six civilians.

No one has so far been brought to trial over the shootings. The protests two years ago brought together tens of thousands of students to demand reforms of the country's government.

The commemoration resulted in a complete halt of traffic on the main north-south thoroughfare passing underneath the flyover and slowed traffic passing over it for several kilometres.