Jakarta – A group of legislators urged the House of Representatives leadership on Thursday to revive a probe into the killings of student demonstrators in Jakarta between 1998 and 1999.

"House Commission II (on home affairs) recommended last year that the investigation be resumed. Why hasn't the House leadership followed this up?" legislator Nursyahbani Katjasungkana said.

Fourteen prodemocracy student demonstrators were killed in three separate protests, known as the Trisakti, Semanggi 1 and Semanggi 2 incidents.

Al Muzammil Yusuf, the deputy chairman of the commission, said he supported Nursyahbani's demand, but House Speaker Agung Laksono was more vague, promising only to accommodate the request.

A 1999 investigation by a team of legislators concluded the cases did not amount to gross human rights violations. Later, military and police officers implicated in the killings cited this finding when they refused to meet investigators from the National Commission on Human Rights.