AGO Examines Google's Parties For Corruption Of Chromebook Laptops

Kapuspenkum Attorney General's Office Harli Siregar/DOK Puspenkum AGO

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is examining one of Google's parties as a witness related to the alleged corruption case in the procurement of a Chromebook laptop at the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019-2022.

"Info from investigators, (witnesses) are present, GSM as Strategic Partner Manager of ChromeOS Indonesia," said Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) AGO Harli Siregar as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 10.

Kapuspenkum said witness GSM arrived at the Junior Attorney General's building for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) on Wednesday morning and the examination of the person concerned is still ongoing.

The AGO is still investigating cases of alleged corruption in the procurement of Chromebooks at the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019-2022.

Kapuspenkum said investigators were investigating 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 laptops based on the Chrome operating system," he said.

In fact, he said, the use of Chromebooks is not a necessity. This is because in 2019 a trial of the use of 1,000 Chromebooks by the Pustekom Kemendikbudristek 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 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).