JAKARTA - The Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology for the period 2019-2024, Nadiem Anwar Makarim, will be a crown witness (witness and defendant) in the trial of the alleged corruption case of Chromebooks, at the Corruption Court at the Jakpus PN.
Nadiem will provide testimony as a witness against three defendants, namely Ibrahim Arief alias Ibam, Sri Wahyuningsih, and Mulyatsyah.
"Yes, the person concerned will be heard in the case of another defendant," said Director of Prosecution of the Attorney General's Office for Special Crimes, Attorney General Riono Budisantoso, to reporters, as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, March 10.
In addition to Nadiem, there will also be statements from other witnesses in the trial, namely Nadiem's former Special Staff, Fiona Handayani and members of the Technical Team for Analysis of Information Technology Learning Tools in the procurement of the ChromebookStefani Nadia Purnama.
In the case of alleged corruption in the education digitization program in the form of the procurement of Chromebook laptops and Chrome Device Management (CDM) in the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019-2022, the three defendants are suspected of causing losses to the state treasury worth IDR 2.18 trillion.
The losses include Rp1.56 trillion related to the education digitization program at the Ministry of Education and Culture as well as 44.05 million US dollars or the equivalent of Rp621.39 billion due to the procurement of CDM that is not necessary and not useful in the education digitization program.
It is stated that the three defendants committed this illegal act together with Nadiem and former Special Staff for the Minister of Education and Culture Jurist Tan.
The illegal acts committed by the defendants, among others, carried out the procurement of learning facilities based on information and communication technology with Chromebook laptops and CDM in the 2020, 2021, and 2022 fiscal years which were not in accordance with the procurement planning and various procurement principles.
For their actions, the three defendants are threatened with criminal penalties 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 as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.
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