Jakarta – A son of former Indonesian president Suharto will stand trial next month for his suspected involvement in a multi-million dollar land scam, reports said Wednesday.

The dossier on Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, Suharto's youngest son, was handed to the South Jakarta district court Tuesday by a public prosecutor, the state Antara news agency said.

"I think a trial for this case will be held in early April because we have to appoint members of the judge first," head of South Jakarta court J.A. Situru was quoted as saying Tuesday. The court will also try other suspects in the case – former chairman of the National Logistics Agency, Beddu Amang, and businessman Ricardo Gelael, a close business associate and car racing partner of Hutomo.

The trial is expected to hear 46 witnesses, including three Suharto-era ministers, the Republika daily said.

Fachmi, the prosecutor who handed over Hutomo's dossier to the court, was quoted by Antara as saying that he and the two other suspects would be accused of corruption that caused the state to suffer losses, a charge that carries a maximum jail sentence of 20 years.

Hutomo was officially declared a suspect and questioned in November over the scam, revolving around a 1997 real estate swap deal involving Bulog and a private company, Goro.

The deal allowed Goro, 40 percent-owned by Hutomo and Ricardo Gelael, to build a retail centre on a large Bulog tract of land in an affluent residential area in North Jakarta.

But Goro failed to keep its side of the bargain by giving some 63 hectares of land to the logistics agency, which resulted in an estimated loss of 52.5 billion rupiah (seven million dollars) to Bulog. Officials have said the trial of Amang and Gelael would open on April 5.