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Politics● Elevated24m ago · Nov 9, 2026, 8:55 AM

Indonesia mulls palace bug sweeps after presidential wiretaps

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · global

Indonesia will tighten controls on state ⁠surveillance equipment and consider ⁠sweeps of its presidential palace for bugging ⁠devices, a minister said on Monday, following last week’s discovery of illegal wiretaps on the president, top officials and more. The wiretapping scandal led to the arrest of four senior police officers accused of unauthorised monitoring of phones, among them a former national police chief ‌who had recently been appointed President Prabowo Subianto’s chief of staff. The...

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