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.

Senior military figures implicated

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.

The presidential palace claims the alleged wiretapping targeting President Subianto could be regarded as an act "tending towards treason."

The authorities did not officially confirm that the deployment is connected to the scandal.

The number of troops and personnel deployed to…