Indonesia mulls palace bug sweeps after presidential wiretaps

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Indonesia is considering tighter controls on state surveillance equipment and bug sweeps of the presidential palace after illegal wiretaps targeting the president and other officials were discovered. Four senior police officers have been arrested in connection with the alleged unauthorized monitoring.

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...