Muh Syaifullah, Yogyakarta – Around 300 students demonstrating at several different locations in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta gave Yudhoyono and Boediono a red report card.
"We are giving a red report card to the SBY-Boediono administration to mark the [first] 100 days of the government, we demand an improvement in their performance as state administrators", said Sujatmiko, one of the action coordinators from the Yogyakarta Indonesian Muslim Students Action Front (KAMMI) on Thursday.
Aside from giving speeches condemning Yudhoyono and Boediono, the demonstrators also brought posters will messages such as "SBY is a dandy, not a president", "Remove Sri Mulyani, Boediono sep down", "KPK must investigate Century" and "Arrest Sri Mulyani and Boediono."
"SBY is only smart at producing reactive policies to protect himself, without there being any concrete polices to improve the state of the country", said Sujatmiko.
The demonstrators came from a number of different organisations including KAMMI Yogyakarta, the All Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM SI), the Muhammadiyah Students Association (IMM) and the Indonesian People's Opposition Front (FOR Indonesia). "We don't trust the SBY-Boediono administration", said FOR Indonesia action coordinator Agung Sulaksono.
[Abridged translation by James Balowski.]