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On Tuesday the National Police named its own former chief, Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, a suspect in the illegal wiretapping of President Prabowo Subianto and other high-ranking officials. Two inspectors general were detained with Listyo, who was subsequently dismissed as the presidential chief of staff.
According to the police's Criminal Investigation DEpartment (Bareskrim), the President's number had been entered into the police's Lawful Interception Management System (LIMS) without a warrant or a case file, as had those of officials, politicians, journalists, activists and businesspeople. When the scheme was detected in October, someone ordered the files and logs deleted.
On Wednesday the Presidential Palace raised the stakes. State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi put the act in the category of makar (treason). “What was done may already fall into the category we can regard as an act leading to makar,” he told reporters at the Palace. A case ostensibly about the abuse of a police system is now, in the government's words, a matter of state security.
