Australia Phone tapping President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and some Indonesian Minister

Australia's spy agencies have tried to tap the phones of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), his wife Ani Yudhoyono and a number of cabinet ministers in the SBY, foreign media reported on Monday (18/11/2013).

A number of secret documents leaked from the U.S. whistleblower, Edward Snowden, who was in the hands of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the British newspaper The Guardian, the name of the President and the nine people in his inner circle as the target of the wiretap Australia.

The report appears as bilateral relations between Indonesia and Australia tense spy-related charges earlier and how to deal with issues related to the boat people heading to Australia via Indonesia. The documents show that the electronic intelligence agency Australia, Defence Signals Directorate, Yudhoyono track activity via cell phone for 15 days in August 2009, when the Labor Party Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister of Australia.

Intercepts the target list also includes Vice President Boediono, who was in Australia last week, former Vice President Jusuf Kalla, presidential spokesman on foreign affairs, defense minister, and the minister of communications and information technology, the report said.



ABC said one of the documents entitled "Impact of 3G and Update", and seems to map the Australian intelligence effort to follow the launch of 3G technology in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia. A number of options and a recommendation registered intercepts were made to choose one of them and apply it to a targeted, in this case the leaders of Indonesia, according to ABC.

The latest release of leaked documents Snowden came a few weeks after a number of reports claiming that the Canberra diplomatic posts abroad, including in Jakarta, has been involved in extensive monitoring network led by the United States. That triggered angry reactions Indonesian Foreign Minister, Marty Natalegawa. The report followed a report in The Guardian earlier this month that Australia and the United States have launched a joint monitoring operations against Indonesia during the discussion of the UN climate held in Bali in 2007.