Indonesian prosecutors named two staff of the relief agency in Indonesia's province of Aceh as suspects in a corruption case, the spokesman of the provincial Attorney General office Muklis said here Thursday.

The agency's budget official Achyarmansyah and Hendrawan Diandi were allegedly involved in the mark up of prices in publication of a book by the national agency in May, which results in the agency's suffering financial loss of 400 million rupiah (40,000 U.S. dollars), a huge number according to the local standard, said Muklis.

The spokesman said that the prosecutors would investigate about 13 others possibly linking with the case.

In August, the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) accused the agency of a 239,600 U.S. dollars irregularity during its operation of supplying books, office kits, direct appointment of contractor and destroying expired medicine.

The head of the agency Kuntoro Mangkusubroto has admitted the possibility of a misuse of donors' funds by the agency due to the emergency situation.

The relief agency for Aceh province and Nias island in North Sumatra province was established on April 16, 2005 with the mission of coordinating the reconstruction efforts in the disaster- affected areas, and to ensure that donor funds are used effectively, transparently and quickly to meet the needs of the Acehnese and Nianese people in North Sumatra province.

The agency has so far managed over 4.8 out of 7.1 billion U.S. dollars pledged by donors for the four-year relief efforts in the restive province of Aceh.

The tsunami in 2004 killed more than 160,000 people in Aceh province and destroyed coastal areas of the province in the northwest tip of Sumatra island. The tragedy was then followed by a powerful quake that struck Nias island.

Source: Xinhua