Yusril Cannot Confirm Gibran Was Wiretapped, Listyo Case Opens a Pandora's Box of Surveillance
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- Menko Kumham Imipas Yusril Ihza Mahendra mengaku belum menerima informasi apakah Wapres Gibran Rakabuming Raka termasuk target penyadapan.
- Mantan Kapolri Listyo Sigit Prabowo bersama dua perwira tinggi Polri lainnya telah ditetapkan sebagai tersangka dan ditahan di Rutan Mabes Polri.
- Dugaan penyadapan periode 2025–2026 menjerat para tersangka dengan ancaman hukuman hingga 10 tahun penjara, sementara satu petinggi Polri berinisial SU masih diperiksa sebagai saksi.
Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra said he has no information on whether Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka was also a target of wiretapping involving several high-ranking National Police (Polri) officers. Yusril made the statement at his office in Jakarta on Tuesday (3/11) night, a day after the National Police Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim Polri) detained former National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo and two other officers.
According to Yusril, the circulating information so far names President Prabowo Subianto, several ministers, politicians, businesspeople, media figures, and community leaders as those wiretapped. He stressed he had not received any report on the Vice President's position on that list. "What I have heard so far is the president and several ministers and several politicians. So, I do not yet know whether the Vice President was also wiretapped or not," he said.
Yusril added that President Prabowo already knows he was a wiretapping victim because he was informed directly by National Police chief Gen. Suyudi Ario Seto. He explained that ministers are the president's assistants, so every important matter concerning the state should be reported to the head of state, except minor matters that each ministry can resolve on its own.
The naming of Listyo and others as suspects marks a new chapter in Indonesia's law enforcement history: for the first time, a former National Police chief who currently holds a strategic position in the palace circle must face the law over wiretapping allegations. Listyo, who led the National Police from 2021 to 2024, was appointed Head of the Presidential Staff Office in late 2024. His detention at the National Police Headquarters detention center raises questions about the independence of the investigation within the institution he once led.
The case also reveals electronic information surveillance practices far broader than the public imagined. Yusril said the victims were not limited to state officials but also included media figures and businesspeople. If that list is accurate, wiretapping could potentially be used as a tool of political and economic pressure, not merely for national security interests. So far, investigators have not detailed the suspects' motives or modus operandi.
"Wallahualam Bissawab. I do not yet know whether the Vice President was also wiretapped or not," said Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections.
From a regulatory standpoint, the articles invoked show a layered legal approach. Article 258 of the Criminal Code governs unlawful wiretapping, Article 332 of the Criminal Code concerns the disclosure of secrets, while Article 32 of the ITE Law prohibits illegal access to electronic systems. The maximum penalty of 10 years places this case among the most serious wiretapping cases ever handled by Bareskrim. However, without transparency about who was wiretapped and what the intercepted contents were, the public will find it difficult to assess whether the investigation is being carried out thoroughly or only touches the lower layers.
For the Prabowo administration, this case tests its commitment to cyber security governance and the rule of law. On one hand, the detention of high-ranking state officials can be read as a signal of seriousness. On the other hand, Gibran's unclear status keeps political speculation flowing, especially because he is the President's son and a figure projected in the map of future political power. Openness about the scope of victims will determine whether this case stops as an internal Polri scandal or develops into a broader crisis of trust.
Going forward, two things deserve scrutiny: first, whether investigators will uncover the masterminds behind the wiretapping operation, not just the field operatives; second, whether the government will push for a revision of electronic surveillance rules so they are no longer a tool of power. As long as the list of victims and the motives are not disclosed, the question of who actually controls the flow of information in the corridors of power will continue to hang in the air.
