Jurist Tan Is Still Abroad, The Attorney General's Office Is Now Examining 5 Witnesses Of Alleged Chromebook Corruption

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The Attorney General's Office (AGO) continues to investigate cases of alleged corruption in the procurement of Chrome OS (Chromebook)-based laptops at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek).

Most recently, investigators examined five witnesses related to the case, which occurred in the Education Digitization Program from 2019 to 2022.

"The examination of five witnesses was carried out in connection with the alleged corruption crime at the Ministry of Education and Culture," said Head of the AGO's Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum), Anang Supriatna in a written statement, Wednesday, July 23.

The five witnesses examined included AM, Functional Developer of Youth Expert Learning Technology at the Directorate of Elementary School for the 2020-2022 period. CLR, Acting Head of Sub-Directorate for Facilitation of Facilities and Infrastructure and Governance of the Directorate of Junior High School, as well as members of the Technical Team for Analysis of the Needs of ICT Learning Equipment in 2020.

AT, a civil servant in the Directorate of Basic and Secondary Education as a Policy Technical Researcher. AB, ASN in the same Directorate and members of the technical team for the 2020 ICT needs analysis.

SBD, Lecturer at Budi Luhur University who also serves as Consultant for Information and Communication Technology at the Primary School Directorate, as well as a member of the Technical Team for the 2020 ICT Needs Analysis.

"The witness examination was carried out to strengthen the evidence and complete the case file," said Anang.

Previously, the AGO had named four people as suspects in this case. One of them is Jurist Tan, who was the Special Staff of the Minister of Education Nadiem Makarim at that time. The other three suspects are Mulatsyah, Director of Junior High School of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Sri Wahyuningsih, Director of the Ministry of Education and Culture Elementary School and Ibrahim Arief, consultant at the Ministry of Education and Culture.

"Based on sufficient evidence, investigators have named the four suspects," said Deputy Attorney General's Investigation Director for Special Crimes, Abdul Qohar.

The two suspects, Mulatsyah and Sri Wahyuningsih, were detained at the Salemba Detention Center at the AGO branch for the next 20 days. Meanwhile, Ibrahim Arief is currently in city detention for health reasons. Meanwhile, Jurist Tan has not yet been detained because he is still abroad.

The suspects are suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1), Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2021 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption, in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.