National Police chief Gen. Suyudi Ario Seto told Commission III of the House of Representatives on Thursday that his predecessor, Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, was the person who ultimately received intercepted communications that allegedly targeted President Prabowo Subianto and other public figures. The shared surname is a coincidence of names: Listyo is the former police chief; Prabowo Subianto is the president.

On Suyudi’s account, during the past year while Listyo led the force he asked three generals — Ahrie Sonta Nasution, Eko Hadi Santoso and Slamet Uliandi — to carry out interceptions and to report the results back to him. Listyo is also said to have chosen the targets, including university students and activists. Suyudi said Ahrie tried to cover the trail by deleting voice recordings and logs and by disbanding a WhatsApp group.

Investigators have also pursued a treason charge against the four, on top of the initial allegations of unlawful interception, data tampering and abuse of authority. Police said they still need more evidence before that treason allegation can be substantiated. Suyudi said the roles he described remain allegations that have to be proved, and the presumption of innocence applies.

Kompas reported that the orders were allegedly given verbally or over WhatsApp, without a written request from an investigator and without a police report. Slamet Uliandi, head of the IT division from 2021 until October 2026, is alleged to have signed off on operations and passed reports on. Eko Hadi Santoso led monitoring from 5 December 2024 to 7 October 2025, and Ahrie was acting head of the same unit from 7 October 2025 to 1 October 2026.

The investigation timeline, again according to Kompas: on 2 November Ahrie was detained and Eko was questioned; on 3 November Listyo was named a suspect; on 4 November he was arrested; on 10 November he was interrogated. The briefing to the parliamentary commission was on Thursday, 12 November.

A photo caption in The Jakarta Post says that on 1 October President Prabowo replaced the foreign minister in his seventh cabinet reshuffle in two years and also changed the police chief. That change at the top of the National Police is the setting in which Suyudi spoke about Listyo’s tenure. It is not a finding of guilt.

The photograph shows the changing of the guard at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, the presidential residence. It is not Thursday’s committee hearing and it does not show the people named in the investigation. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Source: Listyo ordered wiretapping, acted as end user: police, The Jakarta Post.