Jakarta, Feb 24 (Antara) - Indonesia-Australia strained relations over
wiretapping issue last November are still fresh in mind when on Monday
at home the chief intelligence came up to deny allegations of
involvement in an alleged eavesdropping at Jakarta governor's residence.
Antara report on Monday did not mention who had accused the State
Intelligence Agency (BIN) of being involved in the wiretapping and the
planting of bugging devices at the official residence of Jakarta
Governor Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi.
Without mentioning names or institutions which he alleged to have
accused BIN of involvement in the alleged bugging case, BIN Head
Marciano Norman clearly denied if his institution was involved.
"I assure that BIN did not wiretap Jokowi (Joko Widodo), let alone she
(former president Megawati Soekarnoputri)", BIN Chairman Marciano Norman
stated after attending a coordinating meeting with the House of
Representatives (DPR)'s Commission I on defense, information and foreign
affairs on Monday.
His statement suggested that BIN had been suspected of having link with
the matter, yet Antara report did not make any speculation about it.
Jokowi is a cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP)
whose general chairman is former president Megawati Soekarnoputri.
Earlier, PDIP Secretary General Tjahjo Kumolo revealed that wiretapping
devices were found to have been secretly installed in the living room,
bed room and dining room of Jokowi's official residence.
He said it was strongly believed that the planting of the device was an
act of terror aimed at his political party (PDIP) by an external
source. Tjahjo said the search was carried out sometime in the past
because PDIP felt there was a party which wanted to disturb PDIP in the
2014 general elections.
Besides that, according to the PDIP secretary general, Megawati
Soekarnoputri is almost always followed by intelligence agents whose
bosses were unknown. According to TB Hasanuddin, deputy chairman of PDIP
success team, the issue of the wiretapping at the governor's house came
up to the surface due to a reporter's question to Tjahjo Kumolo.
"The PDIP secretary general raised the issue (wiretapping) during the
launching of a book following a terror threat against the National
Democrat (NasDem) Party in Aceh," said TB Hasanuddin at the Parliament
Building in Jakarta on Monday.
He also claimed to know the people behind the wiretapping at the
governor house but he did not want to make it public for fearing it
would create chaos. "I do not want to talk about that," he said.
Hasanuddin suspected that the wiretapping device was planted when the
official residence was cleaned and renovated before Jokowi moved to live
there.
But he stressed that his side was not necessarily be worried because the PDIP cadres can directly overcome it.
In the meantime, political analyst Alfian Alfian said PDIP must report
the case that befell its cadre Jokowi to the police. It should be
investigated by the police in an effort to prove whether the case was
fabricated or true.
"Police need to investigate it so that the problem would become clear.
If not, the public would have the impression the eavesdropping issue was
only an effort to divert other issues," noted Alfan.
The PDIP has stressed that the revelation of the wiretapping at the
governor house was not an effort to divert other problems which
inflicted the party such as the Transjakarta buses and the plan of its
cadre Tri Rismaharani to resign as the Surabaya mayor in East Java.
He said that the wiretapping issue had nothing to do with the aversion
of Mayor Risma's plan to resign as Surabaya mayor, neither with
Transjakarta buses whose machines were reported to have been corroded.
In
connection with the alleged tapping in the governor's residence, BIN
head said his agency was not at all involved in the bugging activities.
Marciano remarked that he had requested Jokowi to improve his internal
security system. He made the suggestion, so that no one could get access
to the governor's internal system and conduct wiretapping.
"I have told him to improve his internal security system," he stressed.
He hoped that all the contestants in the general elections will protect
themselves and their supporters or communities. These parties should
restrict the circulation of nonessential or classified information.
"You must restrict disseminating classified information, because by
doing so, any attempt to wiretap will not happen," he explained.
With regard to the wiretapping issue, the government has been urged to
protect the security and convenience of people in conducting
communications in Indonesia.
This is to follow up cellular phone bugging through the country's two
major cellular telephone operators PT Telkomsel and Indosat.
"The government must issue regulations on the security and convenience
of Indonesia's cellular phone users," Executive Director of Indonesia
ICT Forum (IIF) Yusuf Mars said.
He said that now was the time for the government focus attention on the
telecommunications sector after the emergence of cases in the two
cellular phone operators, Telkomsel and Indosat.
"You can image, even President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is also tapped.
The same also happened with Mrs Ani Yudhoyono and other ministers. So,
if the government has no anticipatory solution to the matter, we will
face information sovereignty crisis," argued Yusuf Mars.
He said that the latest case that affected cellular phone users in the
country harmed all sides, including the cellular phone operators
themselves. This is because data on their privacy is bugged while the
operators will lose customers' trust.***1***
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