The Attorney General's Office Investigate Allegations Of Chromebook Laptop Corruption From 5 Vendors

Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Harli Siregar. BETWEEN/HO-AGO Attorney General

The Attorney General's Office revealed that there were five vendors in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of Chromebook laptops at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) in 2019-2022.

"If I'm not mistaken, there are five lists (vendors)," said Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) at the AGO, Harli Siregar, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, June 5.

Regarding who the vendor for the procurement of the Chromebook laptop is, Harli still can't explain it.

The five vendors are currently the focus of investigation by investigators at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the AGO.

"The names (vendors) are in the hands of investigators and that is what will continue to be carried out," he said.

This week, Jampidsus investigators are focusing on investigating the statements of 28 witnesses, three of whom were former special staff of the former Minister of Education and Technology Nadiem Makarim, namely FH, JT, and IA.

The investigation was carried out in order to determine who was the party most responsible for the alleged corruption case in the procurement of the Chromebook laptop.

The AGO is currently carrying out a general investigation into cases of alleged corruption in the procurement of education digitization in the form of procuring a Chromebook laptop at the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019-2022.

Kapuspenkum Harli Siregar said Jampidsus 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 Chrome's operating system (operating system)," he said.

In fact, the use of Chromebooks is not a necessity 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, Kapuspenkum said that the procurement spent Rp9.982 trillion, consisting of Rp3.582 trillion in education unit funds and around Rp6.399 trillion from special allocation funds.