AGO Starts Investigation Of Alleged Corruption In Procurement Of Chromebook Laptops At The Ministry Of Education And Culture

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is investigating a case of alleged corruption in the procurement of education digitization in the form of a Chromebook laptop at the Ministry of Education and Culture (Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology) in 2019 2023.

The Head of the Attorney General's Office, Harli Siregar, explained that the investigators of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) investigated allegations of malicious conspiracy by various parties by directing a technical team to conduct technical studies related to the procurement of equipment assistance related to technology education in 2020.

"In order to be directed at the use of a laptop based on Chrome's operating system (operating system)," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, May 26.

In fact, he said, the use of Chromebooks is not a necessity because in 2019, a trial of the use of 1,000 Chromebooks by the Pustekom Kemendikbudristek was carried out and the results were ineffective.

"Why is it not effective? Because we know that it is based on the internet, while in Indonesia the internet is not all the same," he added.

From this experience, the technical team also recommended using specifications with the Windows operating system. However, at that time, the Ministry of Education and Culture replaced the study with a new study that recommended using Chrome system operations.

As for the budget side, Kapuspenkum said the procurement spent Rp9.982 trillion.

The nearly tens of trillions of funds consist of Rp3.582 trillion in education unit funds (DSP) and around Rp6.399 trillion from special allocation funds (DAK).

After this indication was found, Jampidsus also raised the status of the case from the investigation stage to the investigation stage on May 20, 2025.