Two Chromebook Laptop Providers in NTB Sentenced to 5.5 Years and 6.5 Years in Prison

The defendant in the corruption case for the procurement of Chromebook laptops, Salmukin, as the provider of goods who played the role of Director of CV Cerdas Mandiri/ANTARA/Dhimas B.P.

MATARAM - The Corruption Court panel at the Mataram District Court, West Nusa Tenggara, sentenced each of the two of the six defendants in the Chromebook laptop procurement corruption case from the goods provider to 5 years and 6 months and 6 years and 6 months in prison.

The Chairman of the Corruption Court Panel of Judges, Lalu Moh Sandi Iramaya, established the criminal verdict for each defendant by reading it first for defendant Salmukin, the supplier of goods who acted as the Director of CV Cerdas Mandiri.

"To impose a sentence on the defendant Salmukin with a sentence of 5 years and 6 months in prison," he said, reading the verdict at the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court, Wednesday, April 29, reported by ANTARA.

In addition to imprisonment, the judge also imposed a fine on Salmukin in the amount of IDR 500 million with a 100-day sub-prison sentence.

The judge in the ruling also ordered the defendant to pay compensation for state financial losses worth IDR 1.32 billion, plus 3 years of imprisonment.

For the second defendant who was read the verdict today is M. Jaosi alias Ojik, a provider of goods who plays a role as a marketing of PT JP Press Media Utama.

The judge sentenced him to 6 years and 6 months in prison with a fine of Rp. 500 million, subject to 100 days of substitute imprisonment.

In addition, the defendant is also required to pay compensation for state financial losses of IDR 238 million, subsider 3 years of substitute imprisonment.

The judge in the ruling stated that the two defendants were proven to have committed the crime of corruption intentionally and planned to obtain personal benefits and benefit others.

So he stated that the actions of the two defendants had been proven to violate the primary indictment relating to Article 603 of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 18 of Law No. 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Crimes jo. Article 20 letter (a, b, and c) of Law No. 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code.

The judge also stated that the defendants knew that the action violated the principle of procurement of goods and services by the government. However, they still carried out the act by taking advantage of their positions, access, and relationships.

In his consideration, the judge revealed the modus operandi of the defendant tends to disguise the flow of funds so that it is difficult to detect, including through an unnatural transaction mechanism.

At the end of the second verdict, the judge conveyed indications of the involvement of other parties based on what was revealed in the trial facts.

This fact is related to the existence of a meeting related to the discussion of the project until the emergence of a list of companies that are allegedly deliberately prepared for the procurement process.

In his ruling, the name of the former Regent of East Lombok Sukiman Azmy along with the East Lombok Regional Secretary Muhammad Juaini Taofik came under the spotlight.

The two are said to have strategic positions that have the potential to influence policy, so they asked the prosecutor's office to develop towards a new investigation.

"Based on the facts of the trial, further investigation needs to be carried out on the parties mentioned to uncover this matter in its entirety," said the judge.

In the 2022 fiscal year procurement corruption case at the East Lombok Education and Culture Office, there were four other defendants who also played a role as providers, namely the Director of PT Temprina Media Grafika, Libert Hutahaean; and the Director of PT Dinamika Indo Media, Lia Anggawari.

The other two defendants from the government side were As'ad as the Secretary of the East Lombok Education Office together with Amrulloh as the Project Commitment Maker (PPK).

For the verdict of the fourth defendant, the judge did not read it in the trial.

In the indictment of the six defendants, the prosecutor previously outlined the state's financial losses that emerged in this procurement worth Rp. 9.2 billion. The lost money is said to have flowed into the pockets of the defendants.

The loss money also flowed to seven providers in the e-catalog, namely: CP Anugerah Pratama, PT Agres Info Teknologi, PT My Icon Technology, PT Ladang Karya Husada, PT Samafitro, PT Trimedia Solusi Informatika, and PT Trisolah Utama Indonesia with a total of Rp. 1.6 billion.

The defendants are suspected of engineering the process of selecting goods and services through e-catalogs. They are said to have arranged four companies as suppliers, namely CP Anugerah Pratama, PT Agres Info Teknologi, PT My Icon Technology, and PT Ladang Karya Husada with a procurement of 4,230 units of Chromebook laptops to be distributed to 282 elementary schools (SD) in East Lombok Regency.

It was revealed in the indictment that the four suppliers did not have goods or products for the Chromebook laptop package. Instead, the order was fulfilled by buying goods from PT Temprina Media Grafika which was not registered as a catalog provider at the Government Procurement Policy Agency (LKPP).