JAKARTA - The public prosecutor (JPU) from the Attorney General's Office asked the panel of judges of the Corruption Court of Jakarta to reject the objection or objection of the defendant Nadiem Anwar Makarim and his team of lawyers in the case of alleged corruption in the procurement of Chromebook laptops.
"We ask the panel of judges who examine and try this case to decide, declare the objections of the legal advisory team and the defendant Nadiem Anwar Makarim to be unacceptable or rejected in their entirety," said the head of the JPU team, Roy Riady, at a hearing at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday, January 8, reported by ANTARA.
The JPU also asked the panel of judges to declare that the indictment on behalf of the defendant Nadiem Anwar Makarim had been carefully, clearly, and completely prepared and had met the provisions set out in the Criminal Procedure Code.
"Continuing the examination of the main material of this case," the prosecutor continued, reading the main application.
In the description of the response to the defendant's objection, the prosecutor assessed that the objection or resistance note of Nadiem and his team of lawyers contained the main material of the case whose truth needed to be tested in the trial.
According to the JPU, such an objection is contrary to the Criminal Procedure Code. Because, objections to charges should talk about the completeness of the formal letter of indictment, including the formulation of the elements of the crime, the description of the way of committing the crime, to other circumstances that are attached when the crime occurs.
"So the public prosecutor responds to the defendant's objection or legal advisor is not included in the scope that can be objected to and is not in accordance with what has been determined in Article 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code in conjunction with Article 75 paragraph (2) letter b of the Criminal Procedure Code," said the prosecutor.
Nadiem is accused of corruption in the education digitization program in the form of the procurement of Chromebook laptops and Chrome Device Management (CDM) at the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019-2022, which caused a loss of state funds worth IDR 2.18 trillion.
The former minister of education, culture, research, and technology (Mendikbudristek) was also charged with receiving money worth Rp809.59 billion from the bribery.
The corruption was allegedly carried out by carrying out the procurement of learning facilities based on information and communication technology in the form of Chromebook laptops and CDM in the 2020, 2021, and 2022 budget years not in accordance with planning and procurement principles.
For his actions, Nadiem is threatened with a criminal penalty as stipulated in Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code. 1.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
