Jakarta – About 100 students and youths staged a rally here on Sunday to demand the resignation of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's economic ministers from his cabinet.

The demonstrators grouping into the Student and Youth Movement for Second Stage of Reformation (Gempur II) staged the rally at the Hotel Indonesia Round About, Central Jakarta, official news agency Antara reported.

This rally followed another one a few days ago in which a group of students and youths echoed the same demand by putting photos of the economic ministers on the fence of the State Palace in Central Jakarta.

Hazim, one of the demonstrators, said the president was urged to consider their demand for reshuffling his economic ministers due to their poor performance. The demonstrators also rejected the government's plan to increase fuel prices and the peace accord that the government signed with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Helsinki, Finland, on Aug. 15.

Bringing various posters rejecting the incumbent trade minister,finance minister, coordinating minister for economy, and state minister for national development planning, the demonstrators brought the ministers' copied portraits and put cross marks on them.

Asked about the reasons for rejecting the Aceh peace accord, Hazim said certain points in the agreement would potentially trigger national disintegration in the future. Hazim said they would continue holding similar rallies in the future until President Yudhoyono replaced the four ministers.

Due to the world's fuel price hike, the Indonesian government has planned to increase the domestic fuel prices, which has partly weakened the national currency rupiah's exchange rate against the US dollar. The value of rupiah has decreased by 11 percent over the beginning of this year.

Some local media, students and economists attribute the economic slump to the incapability of Susilo's economic team and have repeatedly asked the president to reshuffle them.