Jakarta – A group of demonstrators from the Crescent Star Party (PBB) gathered in front of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) on Monday, urging prosecutors to stop investigating a graft case implicating PBB chair Yusril Ihza Mahendra.

The demonstrators, numbering less than 100, urged Attorney General Basrief Arief to stop its graft investigation connected to an online registration system (sisminbakum.com) that allegedly caused the state losses of Rp 420 billion (US$46.2 million).

Former law and human rights minister and party chair Yusril Ihza Mahendra was implicated in the case. As minister at the time he oversaw the establishment of the system in 2001. Previously, Yusril asked the AGO to halt its investigation after one of the suspects in the case, Romli Atmasasmita, was declared innocent by the Supreme Court.