About one hundred lawyers from the Indonesian Advocate Association, or KAI, held a demonstration at the Supreme Court building on Wednesday.

They demanded the Supreme Court acknowledge KAI officially as the court has only acknowledged their rival organization, the Association of Indonesian Lawyers (Peradi), Metro TV reported.

Commotion took place when the lawyers were not allowed to enter the Supreme Court building. The association vice president, Zakirudin Chaniago argued with security officers who tried to block him and his fellow lawyers from entering.

The irate lawyers finally broke open the gate. Two lawyers hurled a flower pot towards the police before entering the lobby with the crowd. In the lobby, they took down and smashed the official picture of Supreme Court Chief Justice Harifin Tumpa and then proceeded to stomp on it.

Security officers managed to extricate the photo from the lawyers' stomping feet before it was completely destroyed.

Another commotion occurred when security officers prevented the angry mob from going to the second floor where court officials were having a meeting with the chairman of KAI, Indra Sahnun Lubis.

"We are lawyers too, don't play favorite," they shouted at the officers. The bitter stand off has yet to reach a satisfactory conclusion.