Serang – Three students were rushed to the nearest public health clinic in Serang after a Monday rally they staged to demand the arrest of Pandeglang Regent Dimyati Natakusumah at the Banten Prosecutor's Office turned violent.

Encep Rudiyanto, Agus Lani and M. Jidah, students at Pandeglang's Mathlatul Anwar University, suffered injuries after they were beaten by police who tried to dismiss them.

Dozens of students rallied at the prosecutor's office to demand Dimyati's arrest.

According to the students, the regent was believed to be involved in a graft case centered around a Rp 200 billion loan the admi-nistration received from Bank Jabar in 2006.

Pandeglang District Court has sentenced one of Dimyati's subordinates, Abdul Munaf, to 13 months in prison. Prosecutors also named the council speaker M. Acang and his deputies Wahyudi Nurhasan and Aris Turisnadi as suspects in the case.

However, prosecutors have yet to arrest Dimyati and his deputy, Erwan Kurtubi, who were also named suspects in the case in March.