JAKARTA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian legislators and legal experts on Tuesday joined the chorus of disapproving an attorney general's decree that puts an end to the graft investigation against former president Soeharto.

    "People who come out with such an idea (of dropping Soeharto case) were mostly raised by Soeharto. They are people who owe Soeharto their honor," noted lawyer Adanan Buyung Nasution said Tuesday.

    Indonesian prosecutors visited Soeharto on Monday at a hospitalin Jakarta to hand him the attorney general's decree.

    Legislator Ahmad Fauzi, called the decree as a big mistake, urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to fire Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh.

    The Soeharto case has been filed to the court that an attorney general cannot step in to halt the case.

    "It should be the court to make the decision," he was quoted bythe Detikcom news website as saying.

    Soeharto, 84, was charged with illegally collecting funds through his foundations when his military-backed regime ruled the country for 32 years.

    But the court failed to force him to attend his trials held several months after his ouster in 1998 and later pronounced him unfit for trials due to health reasons.

    Soeharto has since suffered several strokes and intestinal bleedings and is now being treated after a colon surgery. Doctors reportedly have removed 24 cm of his intestines.

    Elsewhere, legislator Gayus Lumbuun (rpt. Gayus Lumbuun) said the government has no reason to set aside Soeharto's graft case.

    "It is the person who is sick, not the case. The legal proceedings must continue," he said.

    Also on Tuesday, House of Representatives deputy speaker Soetardjo Soerjogoeritno called on the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), the country's highest law-making body, to hold a special session to determine Soeharto's fate.

    "The MPR must hold a special session to revoke an MPR decree on the Soeharto case if he is to be pardoned," he told reporters at the parliament building here.

    In addition to the already-ran trials of Soeharto case, the attorney general's decree is powerless because it cannot overrule an MPR decree, he added.

    Earlier in the day, a number of rights activists and legal experts declared the establishment of the People's Movement for Soeharto Trial.

    The group's main purpose is to reopen Soeharto case and resume his trials.

    "We demand justice, we do not avenge," said MM Billah, a member of the National Commission for Human Rights who joined the movement. Enditem