Indonesia deploys troops to Jakarta after wiretapping allegations

Indonesian troops are being stationed in Jakarta amid wiretapping allegations implicating the president's chief of staff. Suspects are being accused of illegally tapping the president's phones. Indonesia's military deployed more than 20,000 troops and personnel to the capital city Jakarta after authorities launched an investigation into an alleged wiretapping operation targeting the President Prabowo Subianto.

Some 20,000 troops have been deployed in Jakarta amid the scandal with the president's chief of staff is currently being investigated. So far, three senior police generals have been detained. They are being accused of illegally tapping the phones of the president, journalists, politicians and business people.

Among those detained is Listyo Sigit Prabowo — not related to the president — who was the national police chief before becoming the president's chief of staff last month.