Jakarta – Hundreds of enraged supporters of beleaguered Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Monday attacked buildings linked to rival politicians and burned tyres in the cleric's stronghold of East Java, local Metro TV reported.

Metro said supporters had thrown rocks and smashed windows of the Pasuruan party office of Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Wahid's estranged deputy who appears to have spurned his offers of compromise over the country's deepening political crisis.

The station said a university in Sidoardjo town belonging to a Muslim organisation linked to leading Wahid critic Amien Rais had also been attacked by crowds. Police said they had managed to drive the protesters off. Metro TV said the mobs were now burning tyres in the streets of both towns.

Wahid, desperately clinging to power, is due to make a statement at noon on Monday, a day after threatening to declare a state of emergency.