Two Indonesian legislators have criticized Attorney General Muhammad Abdurachman for organizing a lavish wedding reception for his daughter while the country was combatting corruption and a crippling economic crisis.

Parliamentarians also called on the government to check whether such exhibition of wealth by an official ran counter to the law.

"No matter what, simplicity is important at least as a form of solidarity to the people who are still facing the crisis," Susono Yusuf of the National Awakening Party told the Antara news agency.

He called on President Megawati Sukarnoputri, and the minister for the state apparatus, to investigate whether any laws had been violated.

Rachman on June 8 threw a lavish wedding reception attended by some 5,000 invitees that included bankers who were currently facing the law for past banking offences, Antara said. The parliamentarians estimated the cost of the wedding at some 500 million rupiah (57,147 dollars).

Yusuf said that a decree of the minister for state apparatus from December 2001, as a follow up of a 2001 decree of the national assembly, set up requirements for government and state officials to live simply both as individuals and in their duty.

The decree included bans on officials holding official and personal feasts that can be classified as "luxurious and excessive." "This regulation on simple living for ministers and state officials appears not to have been enforced, and therefore the president and the minister for state apparatus should act, because state officials should set an example for the society," another MP, Sutradara Ginting was quoted by Antara as saying.

Ginting, of the Indonesian Unity and Nationhood faction, said the source of funding for the party should be investigated, adding that even if Abdurachman used personal funds he showed insensitivity to the people's plight.

Critics of Megawati's government, who took power from former president Abdurrahman Wahid, say she has failed to keep her pledge to fight corruption.