Vol.62/No.15           April 20, 1998 
 
 
Indonesian gov't bans students from politics  
After months of student protests calling for the ouster of Indonesian president Suharto, like March 19 action in Surabaya above, Education Minister Wiranto Arismunandar said Jakarta would call on state-run universities to enforce a ban on campus political activity. A former rector at Bandung Institute for Technology, Arismunandar expelled 12 students and suspended 61 who participated in recent demonstrations. Meanwhile, some 500 people lined up outside Bank Danamon, after Jakarta suspended seven banks and put seven more under government control. The move is aimed at attempting to halt the downward spiral of that country's economy in the past nine months.  
 
 
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