JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) stated that Jurist Tan, who is a former special staff (stafsus) of the former Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim, is again absent from being investigated in cases of alleged corruption in the procurement of Chrome OS or Chromebook-based laptops, today.
Jurist Tan is known to have been sent three summons for examination, but is always absent.
"That the person concerned also through his power of attorney sent a letter to investigators, unable to fulfill the summons from investigators for examination as a witness today," said Head of the Attorney General's Office, Harli Siregar, to reporters, Tuesday, June 17.
In a letter received by investigators, Jurist Tan through his attorney argued that his absence from the examination schedule this time was due to personal or family matters.
Selain itu, Jurist Tan pada kesempatan sebelumnya juga sempat mengajukan permintaan untuk proses pemeriksaan dilakukan secara daring atau penyidik yang mendatangi ke tempatnya.
"But the investigators did not agree because they had to be examined directly," he said.
The request was made because Jurist Tan was said to be not in Indonesia. Although he did not agree, investigators are still discussing and analyzing this matter.
"Because it seems that the person concerned is not in Indonesia, so those in need are due to differences in jurisdiction, regional differences, territories, and the state, of course, this requires action which is currently being discussed by investigators, discussed as to what will be done," said Harli.
Meanwhile, in the alleged corruption case, investigators investigated the existence 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.
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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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