JAKARTA - Former Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim has been investigated as a witness in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of Chrome OS or Chromebook-based laptops. However, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) did not rule out the possibility of returning to examine it.
The Head of the AGO, Harli Siregar, said that it was possible that Nadiem Makarim would be re-examined because there were still data that had not been submitted and investigators would confirm several things.
"If you look at the data that is still not brought, it has not been submitted, then there are still questions that need to be explored and I think this is closely related to several answers later from other parties that will continue to be confirmed to the person concerned," Harli told reporters quoted on Tuesday, June 24.
At yesterday's examination, Nadiem underwent an examination for 12 hours, starting from 09.00 to 21.00 WIB. Investigators asked dozens of questions.
"31 main questions that may be in these questions are also what are there, further questions and affirmations," he said.
Of the dozens of questions asked by investigators, one of them was a meeting for technical studies on the procurement of laptops which took place on April 6, 2020.
"Then there are very important things investigated by investigators in relation to the meeting in May 2020. Because we know that actually the technician's study has been carried out since April," said Harli.
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The deepening of the meeting was because based on the results of a study on the procurement of laptops based on Chromebooks, it was considered ineffective. However, not long after that there was a change.
"Then in the end it was changed to the moon, if I'm not mistaken in June or July. Well, before that there was a meeting on May 6, 2020 and this investigator will investigate it," said Harli.
Meanwhile, 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)," said Harli.
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 Ministry of Education and Culture's Pustekkom was conducted 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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