The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called violence at the Institute of Public Administration (IPDN), where a student was recently killed, ""beyond the tolerable limit"".
""This (deadly violence) is intolerable anymore. I'm thinking of (taking) fundamental action against the institution,"" Yudhoyono said, as quoted by Antara, after leading a joint mass prayer at the Istiqlal Grand Mosque in Central Jakarta on Sunday.
""If I need to, (I will) set up a new educational institution,"" Agence France-Presse quoted the President as saying.
He expressed regret at the repeated violence at the Sumedang-based school in West Java, where ""unauthorized disciplinary measures"" lead to the death of sophomore Cliff Muntu from North Sulawesi.
""I truly regret that (such violence) continues to happen at an institution that is supposed to provide an example of a harmonious senior-junior relationship,"" Yudhoyono said.
The President said he would summon ad-interim Home Minister Widodo A.S. for an update on the investigation into the incident, including requesting accountability from the institute's rector, I Nyoman Sumaryadi.
Senior students are alleged to have beaten Cliff for not handling the national flag correctly.
The President also said that he had spoken to Noldi Muntu, the father of 21-year-old Cliff.
Speaking in Bandung, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said an open security system of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras should be installed at the institute to prevent such violence from recurring.
In addition to the installation of the CCTV cameras a police post should also be set up at the institute's campus, which accommodates at least 4,558 students, Kalla said.
""Install up to 100 CCTV cameras to ensure openness. Don't cover anything here,"" said Kalla during a brief visit to the campus Saturday.
Before Kalla's visit, Indarto, an assistant to the institute's rector, expelled three more students for their alleged involvement in the death of Cliff, raising the number of students named as suspects in the case to seven.
""(More expulsions) could possibly (occur)... that's why we have to be careful,"" Indarto said.
In Makassar, South Sulawesi, Aksa Mahmud, deputy speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly demanded that IPDN be dissolved because its establishment contravened the 2003 National Education System Law, which did not recognize the strata being applied at the institute.
IPDN had violated regulations through a series of violent incidents, which led to the deaths of a number of students there, Aksa told reporters in Makassar.
""The government should have dissolved IPDN, not only because of the various violent actions, which led to a number of deaths, but mainly because its establishment is against our national education system, which does not acknowledge any first strata level,"" he said.
Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo agreed with Aksa, saying that all higher education institutions that catered to the official bureaucracy had to abide by the existing education law.
Yuli Tri Suwarni and Andi Hajramurni contributed to this article from Bandung, West Java, and Makassar, South Sulawesi, respectively.
