JAKARTA (AFP) - A monkey is the loose inside a building housing Indonesia's parliamentary leaders.

Dozens of workers, including security officers, had been unable to catch the primate, which was inside a medical clinic on the eighth-floor of a parliamentary office tower, the state Antara news agency reported.

The building is home to Amien Rais, speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly who has a fifth-floor office, and Akbar Tanjung, speaker of the House of Representatives who is on the third floor.

It is unknown how the monkey got into the legislative offices.

Why? 'cause, A.) The monkey pic looks nice with the big-eared dog down below &, B.) Buttons digs the primates.