Jakarta  - Hundreds of students clashed with police Tuesday in protests against fuel prices, the latest in a series of demonstrations opposing the government's move to cut subsidies.

Students threw rocks at riot police in two eastern Indonesian cities, prompting the officers to charge back using batons.

No one was reported injured in the clashes but at least two demonstrators were detained in South Sulawesi capital of Makassar after more than 30 students hurled stones at police.

Another clash between students and policemen also took place in East Java capital of Surabaya, where angry protesters demanding the resignations of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Elshinta radio reported.

At the nearby town of Lamongan, hundreds of fishermen set up a roadblock on a highway leading to Surabaya, hijacking a private fuel truck carrying kerosene and setting a fishing boat on fire, the report said.

In response to soaring global oil prices, Indonesia raised fuel prices by almost 30 percent on Saturday, setting off angry protests.

Yudhoyono on Monday defended the decision as necessary to avoid a crisis of public finances similar to the 1997-1998 economic meltdown that crippled the giant South-east Asian country.

In the capital Jakarta, student protesters and police officer were engaged in a standoff throughout the night outside the Christian University of Indonesia, where protestors blocked roads in eastern Jakarta since Monday evening, prompting massive traffic jams. (dpa)