JAKARTA Bung Karno University criminal law observer, Hudi Yusuf, urged the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to immediately reveal the benefits received by former Minister of Education and Technology Nadiem Makarim, Google and vendors in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of the Ministry of Education and Culture's Chromebook.
According to him, the AGO should be careful in deciding suspects from Google and vendors. However, this is not the reason the AGO is too long-winded in revealing the parties who benefited the most in this case.
"I think the AGO still needs further investigation to reveal who it is and that's normal. But the AGO also needs to work quickly so that it doesn't have to be long-winded," said Hudi, Sunday, September 14, 2025.
He considered, with the detention of Nadiem Makarim, it should have made it easier for the AGO to reveal and announce the parties who benefited in this case. "If the main suspect has been arrested, now it's just a matter of determining who will benefit and it's very easy, there's no need to drag on," he said.
Previously, the AGO responded to Nadiem Makarim's attorney, Hotman Paris, who said that his client did not accept profits in the Chromebook laptop corruption case. Hotman even likened Nadiem's case to former Trade Minister Thomas Trikasih Lembong alias Tom Lembong, who was once dragged into a case of alleged corruption in sugar imports.
The Head of the Attorney General's Office, Anang Supriatna, emphasized that corruption is not only limited to efforts to enrich oneself, but also enrich other parties. This is the basis for the snares of the article imposed on Nadiem Makarim cs, namely Article 2 and Article 3 of the Corruption Eradication Law in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.
He explained that Jampidsus investigators at the AGO are still gathering evidence related to the profits received by Nadiem and the companies that benefit, such as Google and vendors involved in procuring Chromebooks for the education digitization program of the Ministry of Education and Culture for the 2019 period. 2022)
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