Lumajang – Some 15 activists of the Moslem University Students Action Group (KAMMI) from some districts in East Java were released on Sunday afternoon after police earlier arrested and held them for a couple of hours.

"They were released after we interrogate them for several hours," Adjunct Commissioner Fransiscus Sasono, chief of the Lumajang police crime unit, said here.

According to him, police held the activists to prevent a clash with followers of the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDIP), the Indonesian Youth Front (BMI) and the police.