Nadiem Makarim's Message For 4 Of His Children After Becoming A Chromebook Corruption Suspect
JAKARTA - Former Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Mendikbud, Research and Technology) Nadiem Makarim conveyed a message to his wife and four children to strengthen themselves.
The message was conveyed when Nadiem was in a detention car after being named a suspect in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of a Chromebook-based laptop in the education digitization program of the Ministry of Education and Culture for the 2019-2022 period.
"For my family and my four toddlers. Strengthen yourself," said Nadiem, Thursday, September 4.
According to him, God will protect and show the truth behind the case involving him.
This is because Nadiem firmly denies being involved in a series of suspected Chromebook corruption cases that have made him a suspect.
"I didn't do anything. God will protect me, the truth will come out. Allah will know the truth," he said.
Nadiem also emphasized that the values of integrity and honesty were upheld by him. Therefore, he claimed that it was impossible to be involved in a series of corruption cases.
"For me, for the rest of my life, the integrity of the number, honesty is number one," he said.
"God will protect me, God willing," continued Nadiem.
Nadiem Makarim is the fifth suspect in the case. Originally, there were four other suspects, namely Mulyatsyah, former junior high school director of Kemendikbudristek; Sri Wahyuningsih, former elementary school director of Kemendikbudristek; Ibrahim Arief, technology consultant at the Ministry of Education and Culture; and Jurist Tan, a former special staff member of the Ministry of Education and Technology.
In this case, Nadiem Makarim is suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph 1 or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law number 20 of 2001 concerning amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 31 of 1999 concerning the weighting of criminal acts of corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code.
It is known that the case began when the Ministry of Education and Culture carried out the procurement of information and communication technology (ICT) devices at the PAUD to SMA levels in 2020-2022 for underdeveloped, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas as many as 1.2 million units of chromebook laptops with a total budget of IDR 9.3 trillion sourced from the APBN and special allocation funds (DAK).
The AGO stated that the purpose of procuring ICT devices in the form of 1.2 million chromebook laptops for school students was not achieved because Chrome OS had many weaknesses for the 3T area, so the suspect's actions were considered detrimental to state finances. The use of chromebooks is very dependent on the internet connection. In fact, internet access in many parts of Indonesia has not been evenly distributed.