DPR Opens Door to Fast-Tracking Interception Bill After Listyo Case

Deputy House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad said the House was open to discussing and accelerating deliberations on the Interception Bill following an alleged illegal surveillance case involving former National Police chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo and several other people, including President Prabowo Subianto.

Dasco said the House would assess how events develop, particularly as it is currently in recess until early next week.

“I can’t answer yet because we are in recess. Depending on how things develop, there may be discussions about whether it needs to be accelerated or what should be done,” said Dasco, who is also known as the Gerindra Party’s executive chairman, at the parliamentary complex in Jakarta on Friday (6 November).

The Interception Bill was previously included on the 2026 list of National Legislative Programme (Prolegnas) priority bills.

The bill was added to the revised Prolegnas alongside the Drinking Water and Sanitation Management Bill and the Indigenous Peoples’ Law Bill at the DPR’s Legislation Body in late 2025.

In the alleged surveillance case, the Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) has named at least four serving National Police generals as suspects.

The four are former police chief and former Presidential Chief of Staff General Listyo Sigit Prabowo; National Police Legal Division chief Inspector General Ahrie Sonta Nasution (ASN); senior police instructor at the National Police Education and Training Institute’s Staff and Leadership School Inspector General Eko Hadi Santoso (EH); and Inspector General Slamet Uliandi (SU), formerly head of the National Police Information and Communication Technology Division.

The alleged illegal surveillance is believed to have targeted not only Prabowo but also a number of state officials, political figures, businesspeople, media organisations and community leaders.

Investigators said the practice allegedly involved entering a number of telephone numbers into the Lawful Interception Management System (LIMS) server without verification or following the required interception procedures during 2025–2026.

As the investigation has progressed, three suspects—Listyo Sigit, Ahrie Sonta and Eko Hadi—have been detained at the National Police headquarters’ Mobile Brigade Corps detention centre. Slamet has not been detained because he is recovering from a stroke.

The suspects are accused of violating Article 258 of Law No. 1/2023 on the Criminal Code, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence; Article 332(1) and/or (2) of the Criminal Code, carrying a maximum six-year sentence; and Article 31(1) of the Electronic Information and Transactions Law, which carries a maximum eight-year sentence.