Jakarta – More than a dozen people, claiming to be students, staged a protest in front of the Defense Ministry in Jakarta on Friday afternoon demanding the government investigate unresolved cases of human rights violations.

The demonstrators highlighted the fact that many cases, particularly the 1998 kidnappings, remain unsolved despite Yudhoyono's repeated pledges to settle them.

The demonstration, despite being attended by fewer than 20 participants, was heavily guarded by police and military personnel because at the same time President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was delivering a public lecture in the ministry's hall.

The protest lasted only about 15 minutes after security officers asked those attending to disband.

The lecture on strategic leadership was delivered to around a hundred defense university students. Journalists, however, were banned from entering the hall to cover the President's lecture, which was also attended by Vice President Boediono.

Also present at the event were several Cabinet members and senior officials, such as Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto, Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Adm. Agus Suhartono, and State Secretary Sudi Silalahi.