Indonesia's Justice Minister says some of the wealth of former President Suharto and his family should be brought back to help the country out of its economic crisis.

In an Australian television interview, the Justice Minister, Muladi, said he wanted a special agency to be formed to investigate the Suharto family's assets, which are estimated at tens of billions of dollars.

The BBC correspondent in Jakarta says that Indonesian newspapers are now openly alleging corruption by relatives of the former president, and thousands of Indonesians have been withdrawing their money from a bank Bank Central Asia which is partly owned by Mr Suharto's children.