JAKARTA - A total of three defendants in the alleged corruption case of Chromebooks were sentenced to 6-15 years in prison, in a reading of the indictment at the Corruption Crime Court at the Central Jakarta District Court.
"Demanding that the panel of judges declare the defendants to be legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing corruption together," said the public prosecutor (JPU) from the Attorney General's Office Roy Riady in the trial reported by ANTARA, Thursday, April 23.
Of the three defendants, the Ministry of Education and Culture Technology Consultant Ibrahim Arief alias Ibam was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Meanwhile, the Director of Elementary Schools (SD) at the Directorate General of Early Childhood Education, Basic Education, and Secondary Education (Ditjen PAUD Dikdasmen) of the Ministry of Education and Culture for 2020-2021, Sri Wahyuningsih, and the Director of Junior High Schools (SMP) at the Ditjen PAUD Dikdasmen Kemendikbudristek for 2020-2021, Mulyatsyah, were each charged with a sentence of 6 years in prison.
In addition to imprisonment, the three of them are also required to be sentenced to a fine, namely Ibam of IDR 1 billion with the provision that if it is not paid, it will be replaced (subsider) with a prison sentence of 190 days.
Then, Sri and Mulyatsyah were each ordered to be sentenced to a fine of Rp500 million with a 120-day imprisonment.
Specifically, Ibam and Mulyatsyah, are also required to be charged with additional criminal charges in the form of compensation of Rp. 16.92 billion each, a subsider of 7 years and 6 months in prison and Rp. 2.28 billion subsider 3 years in prison.
Thus, the JPU believes that the defendants are guilty of violating Article 603 jo. Article 20 of the Criminal Code jo. Article 18 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001.
Before filing the lawsuit, it was considered a burden in the form of the defendants not supporting the government's programs in the implementation of a clean and corruption-free state, collusion, and nepotism (KKN).
"The mitigating factor is that the defendants have never been convicted," said the JPU.
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, Culture, Research, and Technology in 2019-2022, the three defendants are suspected of causing state losses worth IDR 2.18 trillion.
In detail, the state's 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 the Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology for the period 2019-2024 Nadiem Anwar Makarim and former Special Staff to the Minister of Education and Culture Jurist Tan.
The illegal acts committed by the defendants include together with Nadiem and Jurist procuring learning facilities based on information and communication technology with laptops Chromebook and CDM in the 2020, 2021, and 2022 fiscal years which are not in accordance with the procurement planning and various procurement principles.
Then, Nadiem, through Ibam, Mulyatsyah, Sri, and Jurist, made a review of the study and analysis of the needs for information and communication technology (ICT) equipment in the education digitization program, which led to the Chromebook laptop using the Chrome operating system (Chrome OS) and CDM.
However, the review of studies and analysis of needs is not based on the identification of basic and secondary education needs in Indonesia, so it has failed, especially in the 3T areas (outermost, lagging, leading).
The defendants, together with Nadiem and Jurist, have also prepared unit prices and budget allocations for 2020 without being accompanied by surveys with verifiable supporting data.
The preparation of unit prices and budget allocation is carried out in the budgeting of the procurement of Chromebook laptops that use the Chrome operating system (Chrome OS) and CDM which is the reference in the preparation of unit prices and budget allocation in 2021 and 2022.
In addition, the defendants, together with Nadiem and Jurist, are also suspected of procuring Chromebook laptops at the Ministry of Education and Culture through e-Catalogs and the School Procurement Information System (SIPLah) application in 2020, 2021, and 2022 without going through a price evaluation for the procurement of Chromebook laptops and without being supported by price references.
For their actions, the three are threatened with criminal penalties as stipulated in Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 jo. Article 18 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning the 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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