Anti-Suharto demonstration

Indonesian anti-riot police briefly clashed with about 100 demonstrators as they called for ailing former Indonesian president Suharto to be brought to justice.

The former general has been critically ill in hospital for more than two weeks after suffering multiple organ failure.

Doctors said Suharto's health had improved and he could eventually recover enough to go home.

Students and human rights activists gathered outside the Jakarta hospital where the 86-year-old Suharto is being treated, but police barred them from entering, and were later joined by anti-riot police.

Suharto ruled Indonesia for 32 years and has never been brought to trial for rights abuses that occurred while he was in power.

- REUTERS