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Students continue anti-graft protest

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Tempo Interactive - February 1, 2010

Anton Septian, Jakarta – Students continue anti-graft protests in Jakarta on Monday. About 100 students staged a rally outside the Corruption Eradication Commission to demand the commission to arrest and try the lawyer of the largest curtomer of the troubled Bank Century.

Protesters said the commission should arrest Lucas, a lawyer for Boedi Sampoerna the largest customer of Bank Century, and Commissioner General Susno Duadji who the students said helped Lucas to win back his deposits in the bank, months after the bank was bailed out by the government.

A protester said Lucas is the key person in the scandal to uncover the case.

Boedi Sampoerna reportedly divided his deposits into smaller time deposits to the limit guaranteed by the government to secure his deposits. He is a member of the Sampoerna family who supported Yudhoyono's Democratic Party newspaper, Jurnal Nasional.

The bank was allegedly to have contributed to Yudhoyono's campaign in 2009, and that several state owned enterprises have admitted publicly that they deposit some of their fund in the bank.

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