Indonesian police have named a fourth senior officer as a suspect in the alleged wiretapping of President Prabowo Subianto, announcing the move at a press conference in Jakarta late on Thursday, Reuters reported on Friday. Police identified the new suspect only by the initials SU; local media later named him as Inspector General Slamet Uliandi.

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Investigators allege that SU, who served as monitoring chief at Indonesia's Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) between 2010 and 2019 and later headed the agency's information and technology unit from 2021 to 2026, gave the go-ahead for the wiretapping, cyber crime unit director Suhermanto told the press conference. "When the other two suspects were about to wiretap, they got approval from SU. They also asked his approval before deleting interception records," Suhermanto said, according to Reuters.

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Suhermanto said SU had not yet been detained because of a health condition. Local media reported that the officer is in poor health following a stroke.

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Fourth suspect in a widening scandal

Three senior officers were already arrested on Tuesday, including former national police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo, who was also serving as the president's chief of staff, and Inspectors General Ahrie Sonta and Eko Hadi Santoso. Prabowo dismissed Listyo Sigit from the chief of staff post on Wednesday. Awaaz Punjab reported the first arrests and the sacking earlier this week.

The scandal began with the first arrests and the dismissal of the president's chief of staff. Read the earlier report: Indonesia wiretap scandal: first arrests and chief of staff sacked

A rift at the top of Indonesian politics

Police say they are still investigating the motives behind the attempts to intercept the president's communications. Reuters reported that the scandal has exposed a deepening rift between President Prabowo and his predecessor Joko Widodo: Listyo Sigit is widely known as a Widodo loyalist. The wiretapping is alleged to have been going on since 2025, according to local media summaries of the police case.

What happens next: investigators say questioning is continuing, and the case is expected to widen as police examine who ordered the interceptions and whose communications, beyond the president's, may have been targeted. No trial date has been announced.