Corruption Procurement Of Chromebooks, AGO Examines Nadiem Makarim June 23

Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Harli Siregar, spoke with the media crew at the Attorney General's Office Building, Jakarta, Friday (20/6/2025). (Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) will examine the former Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim regarding the handling of cases of alleged corruption in the procurement of laptops based on Chrome OS or Chromebooks.

The Head of the Attorney General's Office, Harli Siregar, said that investigators had scheduled an examination or information collection of Nadiem Makarim on Monday, June 23.

"Investigators have scheduled and summoned Nadiem Makarim's brother to be examined as a witness on Monday, June 23, 2025," said Harli when confirmed, Saturday, June 21.

The plan is for the examination of Nadiem to be carried out at the Round Building and is planned to start at 09.00 WIB.

During the examination later, investigators will explore the supervisory function in the Chrome OS or Chromebook-based laptop procurement project. Then, it is also about whether Nadiem's role is in the series of procurements.

Dalam kasus tersebut penyidik mendalami dugaan adanya permukatan jahat oleh berbagai pihak dengan mengarahkan tim teknis agar membuat kajian teknis terkait pengadaan bantuan peralatan yang berkaitan dengan pendidikan teknologi pada tahun 2020.

"In order to be directed at the use of laptops based on the Chrome operating system (operative system)," said Harli.

In fact, the use of Chromebooks is not a necessity. This is because in 2019 a trial of the use of 1,000 Chromebooks by the Ministry of Education and Culture's Pustekkom was conducted and the results were ineffective.

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.

In terms of budget, Harli said that the procurement spent Rp9.982 trillion.

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