JAKARTA - Public prosecutor (JPU) from the Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) Roy Riady revealed that the Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbudristek) for the period 2019-2024, Nadiem Anwar Makarim, allegedly paved the way for the former member of the Commission X of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Agustina Wilujeng Pramestuti, to "leave a name" in the procurement of Chromebook laptops in the Ministry of Education and Culture environment.
"At that time, Commission X of the Indonesian House of Representatives was a working partner of the Ministry of Education and Culture," said the prosecutor in the reading of the indictment at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, Monday, quoted by Antara.
The JPU explained that Nadiem opened the way when Agustina met with Nadiem and Hamid Muhammad to discuss the procurement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2021, before and after the budget discussion process for the Implementation of Budget List (DIPA).
At that time, there was a need for 431,730 units of Chromebook laptops with details of 189,165 units of budget sources from DIPA and 242,565 units of budget sources from the 2021 Special Allocation Fund (DAK) without studying the formation of the price of one unit of Chromebook laptop.
The JPU said at that time Agustina asked if her friends could work in the procurement process, which was answered by Nadiem that technical matters could be discussed with Hamid.
Furthermore, Hamid is said to have recommended that Agustina meet with the Director General on behalf of Jumeri, who then sent a message via Whatsapp to Jumeri containing instructions from Nadiem and Hamid regarding the recommendation to meet Jumeri.
After that, Jumeri also responded with his readiness to meet Agustina. Then, Jumeri, Hamid, Sri Wahyuningsih, Mulyatsyah, and Purwadi Sutanto, also several times received "tithes of businessman names" from Agustina and asked that the names of businessmen work on the procurement of ICT laptop Chromebooks in 2021.
"The names of the entrepreneurs are Hendrik Tio (PT Bhinneka Mentaridimensi), Michael Sugiarto (PT Tera Data Indonusa/Axioo), and Timothy Siddik (PT Zyrexindo Mandiri Buana)," said the JPU.
In the case of alleged corruption in the education digitization program in the form of the procurement of Chromebook laptops and Chrome Device Management (CDM) in the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019-2022, Nadiem is accused of corruption that has caused losses to the state treasury of IDR 2.18 trillion.
Corruption, among others, was carried out by carrying out the procurement of learning facilities based on information and communication technology in the form of Chromebook laptops and CDM for the 2020, 2021, and 2022 fiscal years which were not in accordance with the procurement planning and procurement principles.
The alleged act was carried out together with three other defendants who have been tried, namely Ibrahim Arief alias Ibam, Mulyatsyah, and Sri Wahyuningsih, as well as Jurist Tan, who is currently still at large.
In detail, the losses caused by the state include Rp1.56 trillion related to the education digitization program at the Ministry of Education and Culture, as well as 44.05 million US dollars or the equivalent of Rp621.39 billion due to the procurement of CDM that is not necessary and not useful in the education digitization program.
With this act, Nadiem is suspected of having received money amounting to IDR 809.59 billion originating from PT Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa (PT AKAB) through PT Gojek Indonesia.
For his actions, the former Minister of Education and Culture is threatened with a criminal penalty as stipulated in Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.
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