(9 Feb 1999) Natural Sound
Students in the Indonesian capital Jakarta took to the streets on Tuesday, marching to the Indonesian parliament to demand that former President Suharto be put on trial.
The students are demanding an investigation into the military's killing of at least nine campus activists during protests for political reform in November.
Around one hundred student protesters clashed with riot police in Jakarta on Tuesday as a protest against former president Suharto ended in scuffles.
The protest centred on the city's Atma Jaya Catholic University where at least nine students were shot last year during protests calling for political reform.
Traffic on the city's main highway was brought to a halt by the demonstration.
The activists chanted anti-Suharto slogans and said they wanted an investigation of the military's killing of the students last November.
Police and soldiers scuffled with some students as they carried them to two trucks, but there were no injuries.
Student protests helped oust Suharto last May after 32 years in power.
The ex-army general lost credibility after Indonesia sank into economic crisis in 1997.
There is a widespread fear of more unrest in the country ahead of parliamentary elections in May.
Riot police arrested around forty of the protesters as clashes continued.
Authorities said they planned to release the detainees after questioning.
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