Muhammad Taufik, Jombang – Hundreds of youths and students from the Indonesian Islamic Students Movement (PMII), Indonesian National Students Movement (GMNI) and the Jombang Student and Youth Union Jombang (SPMJ) protested on Thursday demanding that Yudhoyono and Boediono resign.

The groups said that the 100 day program proclaimed by the government had failed totally. "SBY and Boediono's policies are not pro-people. There are irregularities in the current administration. The eradication of corruption is just a slogan", said one demonstrator in a speech in the East Java city of Jombang.

A number of examples of this failure were given including the high cost of education, growing unemployment, the lack of job opportunities and the high poverty rate. Yudhoyono's rottenness has become even clearer with the emergence corruption cases such as the Bank Century scandal and the criminalisation of the KPK. The protesters also said that the recently signed ACFTA agreement would clearly bring suffering to the people. SPMJ coordinator Syahidan said that the government had been involved in a series of conspiracies to weaken the law, as proven by allowing the continued practice of the judicial mafia. The government has even tended to support the exploitation of the country's wealth by foreigners. "Dissolve the neo-liberal cabinet", shouted Syahidan.

[Abridged translation by James Balowski.]