Five-Stage Illegal Tapping Operation Ordered by General Sigit Revealed
National Police Chief General Suyudi Ario Seto has revealed the alleged five-stage method used in illegal surveillance of President Prabowo Subianto, reportedly carried out by former police chief General Listyo Sigit and others. Suyudi outlined the process, from the order to conduct the surveillance through to the instruction to delete the data.
He made the statement during a hearing with Commission III of the House of Representatives at the parliament complex in Jakarta on Thursday (12 November 2026). Suyudi said the case came to light after a report was filed with the National Police Criminal Investigation Department’s public service desk. It was then handled by the department’s Cyber Crime Directorate.
“Based on the investigation, the alleged modus operandi in this case consisted of five stages: the order to conduct surveillance, provisioning, the surveillance itself, reporting to the end user, and data deletion,” Suyudi said.
Suyudi said the initial order allegedly came from Listyo Sigit to Slamet Uliandi, who then passed it on to Eko Hadi and Ahrie Sonta.
“First, the order to conduct surveillance allegedly came from General LSP through SU, and was then passed on to EA and AS,” Suyudi said.
The order was subsequently conveyed verbally or through a WhatsApp group, without a formal request from investigators or an attached police report.
At the second stage, provisioning, Suyudi said the Technical Supporting Unit (TSU) team allegedly entered the target telephone numbers into the LIMS system without verifying or filtering whether they were linked to a pro-justice case.
The third stage was the surveillance itself. Suyudi said it was carried out using the PLX system, through which officers listened to and exported recordings of intercepted communications. Transcripts were then produced from the recordings.
At the fourth stage, the surveillance findings were reported to Sigit.
“The surveillance results were reported through the chain of command, from the head of the section, SU, up to General LSP,” he said.
The fifth stage was data deletion. Suyudi said AS ordered the surveillance results to be erased.
“In October 2026, data from the surveillance on the LIMS and PLX systems was allegedly deleted on AS’s instructions, with the TSU team carrying it out,” he said.
Police have named four people as suspects in the case: former police chief and Presidential Staff Office head General Listyo Sigit Prabowo; Police Legal Division chief Inspector General Ahrie Sonta Nasution; senior police educator at the Police Education and Training Institute Inspector General Eko Hadi Santoso; and former Police Information and Communications Technology Division chief Inspector General Slamet Uliandi.