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Students protest crisis in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) —Thousands
of banner-waving university students de
manded President Suharto’s ouster
Wednesday — the largest display of anger
yet over the economic crisis that has In
donesia in an upheaval.
The protests came as the United States
and other foreign lenders stepped up the
pressure on Suharto to carry out reforms
they consider crucial to rescuing the econ
omy — reforms that could undercut much
of Suharto’s power and wealth.
“HangSuharto!” shouted protesters in the
Java island city of Yogyakarta, circling their
campus on scooters under the scrutiny of
hundreds of police and plainclothes officers.
Students also rallied in several other
cities on Java as well as on Sulawesi, anoth
er of Indonesia’s larger islands.
Five people have been killed in riots this
year over rising food costs, but Wednesday’s
rallies were peaceful.
Confined to campuses, they posed little
threat to Suharto, who has resisted calls to
overhaul the government he began shap
ing in the 1960s.
Even as the students protested, dele
gates to a special assembly were preparing
to extend Suharto’s 32-year rule. Already
Asia’s longest-serving leader, the 76-year-
old president is almost certain to get a sev
enth five-year term next week.
However, Suharto is under growing in
ternational pressure to carry out economic
reforms in exchange for $43 billion bailout
by the International Monetary Fund.
“Suharto is the
mastermind of
the crisis.”
Pedro Viera
Indonesian student
The IMF has already handed over $3 bil
lion, but still has not decided whether to
grant the second $3 billion installment,
due March 15.
The United States, which exerts virtual
veto power over the IMF, says Suharto is not
moving fast enough on reforms that would
remove business perks he, his family and
their associates have long enjoyed.
Indonesia says many of the measures,
including the slashing of subsidies, are too
strict and could provoke more social unrest.
But with the deadline nearing, Suhar
to said Wednesday that he had disman
tled a string of monopolies in line with the
IMF requirements.
In a meeting of top economic advisers,
he said the government has stripped the
state agency Bulog of all trade controls ex
cept for a rice monopoly.
Presidential spokesperson Murdiono,
who attended the meeting, quoted Suhar
to’s remarks on reform.
Indonesia’s worst economic turmoil in
three decades began when the currency,
the rupiah, plunged in value last year, push
ing up prices and unemployment in the na
tion of 202 million.
Protesters said Suharto is to blame.
“Suharto is the mastermind of the cri
sis,” said Pedro Viera, a student at the pres
tigious Gadjah Mada University in Yo
gyakarta, 310 miles east of Jakarta.
The Yogyakarta students also appealed
for the government to take action against
ethnic violence.
Floods in Pakistan leave
homeless, 1,200 feared
Pakistani shot after forbidden love affair sparks riots
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) —
The man whose marriage to the
woman he loved landed them
both in jail and sparked riots by
their rival ethnic groups was
shot and critically injured
Wednesday when he arrived at
court to face charges of having
extramarital sex.
Police arrested the bride’s fa
ther, brother and the man her
family wanted her to wed for
the shooting of Kanwar Ahson.
Doctors said Ahson was fight
ing for his life Wednesday night
with gunshot wounds in the
chest, abdomen and leg.
Ahson, a member of the Mo-
hajir community in his 20s, and
Riffat Afridi, an 18-year-old
Pathan, eloped last month
against her family’s wishes. The
marriage sparked riots in
Karachi that killed two people,
and a council of Pathan elders
sentenced Afridi to death, saying
she had dishonored her family.
As night settled on Karachi,
police stepped up patrols and
security forces stood guard in
armored personnel carriers,
hoping to ward off possible
ethnic violence.
Ethnic Pathans, who are from
Pakistan’s conservative North
west Frontier province, have of
ten clashed with Mohajirs, Mus
lims who migrated from India
after the subcontinent was par
titioned by the British in 1947.
TURBAT, Pakistan (AP) — Raging Hood
waters have submerged a remote corner of
southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 100
people and washing away huts, hospitals
and a school where dozens of students had
been trapped.
Some 1,200 people were missing and
feared dead Wednesday.
The one-room religious school was
submerged by high water Tuesday, drown
ing 35 of 39 pupils there, said Ghulam Mo
hammed Afridi, a local official in Pakistan's
southwestern Baluchistan province.
In the same hard-hit village of Marri-
abad, a man watched as the Hood swept
away two dozen members of his family. He
survived by clinging to a tree.
Rains that began Sunday turned the
usually dry Dasht River into a torrent that
roared over hundreds of homes, most of
them made of sun-baked mud and straw,
said Noor Ahmed Shah, an official in
Baluchistan province.
Residents of Ttirbat, a city of several
thousand, said the rains had Hooded
dozens of homes, shops and at least two
hospitals. Medical equipment was dam
aged and patients had to be moved to
higher ground.
In Marriabad, a village of6,000, there was
barely a home still standing, said Nasir Mo
hammed, who lost 24 members of his family.
Family members had stacked beds on
top of each other to escape as the water
rose Monday and Tuesday. Then, a gush of
water swept them all away, he said.
“I clung to a tree and I held on,” he said.
"I watched as everything just washed away.
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