Indonesian president’s chief of staff dismissed over alleged wiretapping

Gov’t says Listyo may have committed ‘treason’ after he is arrested and accused of wiretapping top officials’ phones.

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Government says Listyo Sigit Prabowo may have committed ‘treason’ after he is arrested, accused of wiretapping top officials’ phones.

Listyo Sigit Prabowo was chief of the Indonesian National Police for five years before becoming the president's chief of staff [File: AFP]

The Indonesian president’s chief of staff has been fired for what the government says could be “treason” after he allegedly wiretapped phones with the help of two other serving police officers.

President Prabowo Subianto dismissed Listyo Sigit Prabowo on Wednesday, a day after police announced his arrest over allegations that he had illegally wiretapped phones belonging to several high-profile individuals, including the president and cabinet ministers.

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Two other senior police officers were also arrested, including Ahrie Sonta Nasution, head of the legal division of the Indonesian National Police, according to local media.

“This was, of course, carried out by certain rogue individuals, and we are also of ‌the view that what was done may already fall into a category that can be considered an act tending towards treason,” presidential spokesperson Prasetyo Hadi said on Wednesday.

“It also tends towards acts that endanger state interests and the safety of the nation’s leadership, including the safety of the head of state,” he said.

The unauthorised wiretapping allegedly took place from last year to this year while Listyo was serving as chief of the National Police, a position he held for five years before becoming the president’s chief of staff last month.

The suspects are also accused of trying to conceal their actions by ordering the deletion of files containing intercepted communications last month.

Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Indonesia’s senior minister for legal affairs, said the motive behind the alleged wiretapping has not yet been determined.

The operation was conducted “without any legal basis or without any investigative or inquiry process in accordance with applicable laws”, according to Asep Safrudin, the top detective in the National Police.

Also on Wednesday, the Indonesian military deployed more than 20,000 soldiers in the capital, Jakarta. It did not say whether the deployment was linked to the arrests.

Indonesian armed forces spokesperson Major-General Muhammad Nas said the troop movement was standard procedure for maintaining national security and territorial integrity.

“Troop deployments are a normal occurrence,” Nas said, adding that the military “must always be prepared to protect the entire nation and safeguard the integrity of the Republic of Indonesia”.

政府称，利斯蒂约·西吉特·普拉博沃被捕后可能犯有“叛国罪”，他被指控窃听高级官员的电话。

Listyo Sigit Prabowo 在担任总统办公厅主任之前，曾担任印尼国家警察总长五年。[图片：法新社]

印尼总统的幕僚长因涉嫌伙同另外两名在职警官窃听电话而被政府解雇，政府称其行为可能构成“叛国罪”。

周三，普拉博沃·苏比安托总统解除了利斯蒂约·西吉特·普拉博沃的职务。此前一天，警方宣布逮捕了他，指控他非法窃听了包括总统和内阁部长在内的几位知名人士的电话。

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据当地媒体报道，另有两名高级警官也被逮捕，其中包括印尼国家警察法律部门负责人阿赫里·松塔·纳苏蒂安。

总统发言人普拉塞蒂奥·哈迪周三表示：“这当然是由某些不法分子实施的，我们也认为，这种行为可能已经构成叛国罪。”

“它也倾向于做出危害国家利益和国家领导人安全，包括国家元首安全的行为，”他说。

据称，未经授权的窃听行为发生在去年到今年期间，当时利斯蒂约担任国家警察总长，他在上个月成为总统办公厅主任之前担任该职位长达五年。

嫌疑人还被指控试图通过下令删除上个月截获的通信文件来掩盖其行为。