JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) opens the opportunity to examine the former Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim related to the alleged corruption case in the procurement of Chromebooks at the Ministry of Education and Culture and Technology in 2019 2022.
"If it becomes a necessity for investigation, then it could be done," said Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the AGO Harli Siregar at the Attorney General's Office building, Jakarta, Wednesday, May 28, as reported by ANTARA.
Kapuspenkum ensured that investigators at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) would examine parties who were considered to be able to shed light on this corruption crime.
"Is it deemed necessary? We'll see how the investigation is," he said.
For information, Nadiem Makarim's name surfaced after two former special staff (stafsus) Nadiem while serving as Minister of Education and Culture, namely FH and JT, were examined by Jampidsus investigators for his connection in this case.
In addition to examining FH and JT, investigators also searched their second apartment located in the South Jakarta area. There, investigators confiscated a number of electronic evidence and documents.
It is known that the Jampidsus AGO is investigating a case of alleged corruption in the procurement of Chromebooks at the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019-2022.
Kapuspenkum Harli said that investigators at Jampidsus 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.
"To be directed at the use of laptops based on Chrome's operating system (operating system)," he said.
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In fact, he said, the use of Chromebooks is not a necessity because in 2019, a trial of the use of 1,000 Chromebooks by the Pustekom Kemendikbudristek was carried out 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.
As for the budget side, Kapuspenkum 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).
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