Jakarta – The chief prosecutor in the Indonesian province of Yogyakarta is planning to summons all 51 provincial MPs over suspected bribery linked to a local election and a building project, a report said Wednesday.

"I have just reported to the governor and asked for his permission to send a letter to the home ministrer for permits to question the [provincial people's representative] council members," chief prosecutor Hantoro was quoted by Koran Tempo newspaper as saying.

Hantoro, who declined comment to AFP on Wednesday, was quoted by the daily as saying the Governor, Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, had given his oral approval. Under Indonesian law, the questioning of provincial legislators can only be done with the approval of the national home minister.

Hantoro said the lawmakers would be questioned over allegations of bribery during a recent election for the local vice governor and in connection with the building of an exhibition centre for a regional ministerial meeting on tourism. Hantoro was quoted as saying his office has enough initial evidence of bribery to seek to question the MPs.

Press reports, which have been denied by the Yogyakarta provincial parliament leadership, said some one billion rupiah (97,087 dollars) was given as in bribes to some legislature members during the election and 150 million rupiah (14,563 dollars) in bribes for the project.