Jakarta – Officials blocked Indonesia's pro-democracy leader today from running for reelection to parliament in May.

The list of 2,293 candidates approved by election officials includes four of President Suharto's children, his half-brother, a daughter-in-law and a cousin.

Suharto's relatives registered as members of his Golkar party, which has won landslide election victories since the former army general took power in 1966.

Excluded was Megawati Sukarnoputri, whose ouster as leader of an opposition party last year led to anti-government rioting in which at least five people died. She has been a member of parliament since 1992.

Candidates nominated by the 46-year-old daughter of the late President Sukarno already had been rejected on the grounds that she was no longer the head of one of Indonesia's three authorized parties.

The Suharto offspring on the list are his sons Bambang Trihatmodjo and Hutomo Mandala Putra and daughters Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana and Siti Hediyanti Prabowo.

The children are successful business figures thanks to government contracts and monopolies, with interests in construction, communications, aviation, hotels, real estate and the auto and oil industries.