Indonesia Arrests 3 Police Generals over Suspected Surveillance of the President
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesian police said Tuesday they had arrested three senior police generals suspected of illegally monitoring the phones of President Prabowo Subianto and dozens of other notable persons.
The suspects are being probed for illegally intercepting communications, accessing computer systems without authorization and erasing electronic data, said Asep Safrudin, chief of the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Agency.
Police identified the accused as current Presidential Chief of Staff Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, National Police Legal Division chief Insp. Gen. Ahrie Sonta Nasution and senior National Police Education and Training Institute instructor Insp. Gen. Eko Hadi Santoso, police said. All three were kept in the custody cell at the National Police headquarters, Safrudin added.
“The suspects are charged with illegal or nonprocedural tapping against telephone numbers of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, state officials, political figures, media figures, community leaders, NGO activists and businesspeople,” Safrudin told a news conference at national police headquarters in Jakarta late Tuesday.
Prabowo and the three accused have not publicly commented on the claims of wiretapping. A spokesperson for the presidential chief of staff’s office was not immediately available to comment.Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and the Prisons There was no sign of treason in the instance of three active high-ranking police officers, Yusril Ihza Mahendra stated.
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