Jakarta – Victims of last month's devastating floods in the Indonesian capital and a neighboring province on Wednesday filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against President Megawati Sukarnoputri and two governors for their failure to deal with the disaster.

The class action suit was filed by 32 lawyers, representing 15 plaintiffs, at the Central Jakarta district court. The plaintiffs demand the president, Jakarta governor Sutiyoso and West Java governor Nuriana pay flood victims 1.26 trillion rupiah (126 million dollars) in damages.

"The lawsuit is launched because the government has been indifferent to the suffering of the residents and has failed to fulfill their obligations as state officials," one of the lawyers, Azas Tigor Nainggolan, told reporters.

The floods and landslides hit several parts of Indonesia and killed at least 147 people nationwide, 67 of them in Jakarta and its satellite towns. It was not clear whether this figure includes subsequent deaths from disease. The disaster also left more than 330,000 people in the capital temporarily homeless.

City Governor Sutiyoso, a retired general, has rejected calls to resign despite criticism of authorities' failure to put effective flood control measures in place. Official efforts to aid victims have also been slammed as inadequate.