Indonesian prosecutors on Thursday sought a jail term of at least 16 years for former parliament speaker Setya Novanto if found guilty in a graft scandal and demanded that he also repay more than US$7 million he is suspected of plundering. Novanto, who was taken into custody in November last year by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), is accused of orchestrating a scheme to plunder US$173 million from a government contract to introduce a national electronic identity card. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating the activities of Johannes Marliem, a U.S.-based contractor for the ID card scheme, who later committed suicide in Los Angeles.