JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) will examine Jurist Tan, who is a former special staff (stafsus) of the former Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim. Investigators will explore his involvement in the procurement of Chromebooks.
"Well, what kind of staff role is there, that will be explored," said Head of the Attorney General's Office, Harli Siregar, to reporters, Monday, June 16.
Not only that, if Jurist Tan is involved in the procurement later, investigators will also explore his role. That way, the series of suspected corruption cases will be clearer.
"For example, in project management, it is not (involved), then whether its role in the process is to say it provides advice, analysis related to technical studies that have been given," he said.
"In the end, from the technical study, it was directed at using the Windows system, in the end, it turned out that it had to use the Chromebook operating system," continued Harli.
It is planned that the examination of Jurist Tan will be carried out on Tuesday, June 17. Investigators have scheduled to reschedule the agenda for taking information on the former staff member of Nadiem Makarim, who was previously on June 11.
"So in accordance with the letter that has been received by investigators, of course, we will schedule it for an examination tomorrow, Tuesday," said Harli.
In this case, investigators investigated 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 the Chrome operating system (operative system)," he said.
In fact, the use of Chromebooks is not a necessity. This is 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, Harli said that the procurement spent Rp9.982 trillion.
The nearly ten trillion 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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