Students, workers plan huge fuel price protest

Seven student and labor organizations have vowed to bring some 10,000 people to the streets on Saturday to protest the government's plan to raise fuel prices the same day.

Dita Indah Sari, coordinator of the protest, said on Thursday that the protesters aimed to occupy the House of Representatives' building. Some of them would target the State Palace.

But the House's building will be empty on Saturday, ass its recess starts on April 1, ending May 12.

Dita, however, said it was not legislators who were their target, but rather the Abdurrahman Wahid-Megawati Soekarnoputri government.

"By staging the protest at the House building, we can build public opinion in support of the idea that a hike in fuel prices betrays the people's will," she said. (*)