Four Suspects, One Ill: The New Map of the Prabowo Wiretapping Case and the Shadow of Mako Brimob
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- Mabes Polri menambah satu nama dalam daftar tersangka dugaan penyadapan ilegal terhadap Presiden Prabowo, sehingga total menjadi empat orang.
- Tiga tersangka telah mendekam di Rutan Mako Brimob, sementara satu tersangka baru berinisial SU belum ditahan karena kondisi kesehatan pascastroke.
- Kapolri membentuk tim khusus yang dipimpin Kabareskrim, menegaskan proses hukum berjalan tanpa intervensi kepentingan internal Korps Bhayangkara.
The National Police Headquarters (Mabes Polri) has officially named one additional suspect in the alleged illegal wiretapping of President Prabowo Subianto and several other public figures. The new suspect, identified by the initials SU, completes the list of four names now holding legal status in the case that has gripped public attention. However, unlike the other three suspects, SU has not been detained for medical reasons.
The Director of Cyber Crime at Bareskrim Polri, Brig. Gen. Suhermanto, said that three suspects had been moved to the Mako Brimob Detention Center in Kelapa Dua, Depok, West Java. They are former National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, the head of the National Police's Legal Division, Insp. Gen. Ahrie Sonta Nasution, and the principal police instructor at TK1 Sespim Lemdiklat Polri, Insp. Gen. Eko Hadi Santoso. Meanwhile SU, who is said to have once served as head of the Monitoring Section at Bareskrim, is still undergoing treatment for a post-stroke condition.
"The number of suspects is currently four. Three are detained at Mako Brimob, one cannot yet be detained because of a post-stroke condition," Suhermanto said at a press conference at Mabes Polri, South Jakarta, on Thursday (5/11) evening.
From the case review, investigators concluded that SU acted as a supervisory board for the two other suspects, EH and AS. Both are said to have always sought SU's approval before carrying out wiretapping or deleting digital documents resulting from the wiretapping. SU's position as a former monitoring official at Bareskrim strengthens the suspicion that the practice followed a structured pattern rather than being sporadic acts.
In addition to naming suspects, investigators have also examined 13 witnesses and five experts. The growing number of witnesses indicates that investigators are still leaving room for a possible expansion of the case, especially to trace whether other parties were involved in the wiretapping chain of command.
"The National Police chief has formed a special team to respond to information that has become a public concern. The deepening process will require time and stages that must be carried out carefully in accordance with legal provisions," said the head of the Public Information Bureau of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Brig. Gen. Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko, on the same occasion.
Trunoyudo's statement confirms that National Police chief Gen. Suyudi Ario Seto has taken over control of the case through a special team led directly by the head of Bareskrim. The move is seen as an effort to maintain the independence of the investigation amid public speculation about potential conflicts of interest within the institution.
In a separate statement, Suyudi asked all ranks of the Korps Bhayangkara to continue carrying out their duty to maintain public security and order. He stressed that the case dragging in Listyo and the others was purely law enforcement, with no connection to rivalry or particular interests within the National Police. The statement appeared aimed at dampening the perception that the case has political overtones.
The case began with the alleged illegal wiretapping of President Prabowo and several other figures. Bareskrim named three active generals as suspects earlier this week before eventually adding SU as the fourth suspect. The suspects are charged under Article 258 of the KUHP and/or Article 332 Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the KUHP, as well as Article 32 Paragraph 1 of the ITE Law, which governs unlawful wiretapping and alteration of electronic data.
Detention at Mako Brimob is a symbol that there is no privileged space for high-ranking officers caught up in legal cases. However, the public is still waiting to see whether the special team formed by the National Police chief will be able to uncover the mastermind behind the wiretapping operation, or whether it will stop at the four names already named. The next question: will this legal process be transparent down to the root, or will it once again become a test of the National Police's credibility in the eyes of the public?
