Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Hamzah Haz dismissed on Wednesday media reports claiming that his party had received money from the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) and then president B.J. Habibie in 1999.

"None of the reports are true. You [journalists] can just try to prove yourselves ... If the reports are not true, we may sue them (media)," Hamzah, who is also the vice president, said as quoted by Antara after attending a graduation ceremony atthe National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas).

On media reports that he had received Rp 25 billion (US$2.5 million) from Bulog and Rp 14 billion from Habibie, Hamzah maintained that neither himself as a private citizen nor the PPP as an institution had anything to do with the Bulog scandal.

The Golkar Party, which has been implicated in the alleged misuse of Rp 40 billion in Bulog nonbudgetary funds, recently claimed it was not the only political party that had received Bulog funds, saying that almost all parties contesting the 1999 general election had received financial support from the agency.

Hamzah said none of the allegations would have an effect on his party nor on his performance as Vice President.