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September 4, 2025 | 04:26 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has officially named Nadiem Makarim, the Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology for the 2019-2024 period, arsenic a fishy successful the Chromebook laptop procurement corruption lawsuit for the 2019-2022 period. "Today, the investigators person designated 1 idiosyncratic with the initials NAM arsenic the Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology for the 2019-2024 period," said Nurcahyo Jungkung Madyo, the Director of Investigation of AGO's Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus), during a property league astatine the AGO's Special Crimes (Pidsus) gathering connected Thursday, September 4, 2025.
Previously, successful an authoritative release, the Prosecutor's Office mentioned that Nadiem instructed the 4 suspects during a Zoom gathering connected May 6, 2020, to procure ChromeOS laptops from Google. Meanwhile, a survey claiming that Chromebooks are superior to different products, including Windows, was lone published successful June 2020.
The Prosecutor's Office had antecedently designated 4 individuals arsenic suspects. They are Nadiem's erstwhile Special Staff, Jurist Tan; erstwhile advisor of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, Ibrahim Arief; Director of Elementary Schools astatine the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology for the 2020-2021 period, Sri Wahyuningsih; and Director of Junior High Schools astatine the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology for the 2020-2021 period, Mulyatsyah. They were declared suspects connected July 15, 2025. On that day, Nadiem was besides interrogated for 9 hours but was allowed to spell home.
The prosecutors stated that Nadiem formed a WhatsApp radical called "Mas Menteri Core Team" successful August 2019, which occurred 3 months earlier his inauguration arsenic curate successful October 2019. The radical was utilized to sermon plans for digitalizing acquisition programs astatine the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. Nadiem formed the radical with his erstwhile peculiar staff, Fiona Handayani. Fiona has besides been questioned respective times arsenic a witnesser successful this case.
Another facet investigated by the authorities is Google's concern successful PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia successful 2020. Gojek is simply a institution founded by Nadiem. The institution merged with Tokopedia successful 2021. Investigators are probing whether the enactment of Chromebooks is related to Google's concern successful Gojek. Chromebook is simply a merchandise of Google.
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