JAKARTA - The public prosecutor (JPU) from the Attorney General's Office responded casually to various insults, ridicule, and threats received during handling the case of alleged corruption in the procurement of chromebooks with the defendant Nadiem Anwar Makarim. The JPU denied criminalizing the former education and culture minister.
JPU Corneles Geeb Paulus stated that his party chose to forget the various negative narratives and invited the public to respect the decision of the panel of judges who sentenced Nadiem to 10 years in prison.
"We as public prosecutors forget all the insults, insults, curses, jeers, threats delivered during the trial and outside the trial," said Corneles after the verdict hearing for alleged corruption in the procurement of chromebooks with the defendant Nadiem Makarim at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, Tuesday, June 30.
According to Corneles, the panel of judges has declared that Nadiem has been proven to have committed corruption in a lawful and convincing manner as charged with the sub-article of the Corruption Eradication Law.
He said the judge also considered the defendant to have abused his authority to benefit himself, resulting in financial losses to the state, and placed Nadiem as the main perpetrator in the case.
Corneles emphasized that the decision was not about winning or losing, but rather a form of law enforcement and justice. According to him, justice is not only given to the defendant through the judicial process, but also to the public, especially the students who are considered to have lost their rights to the equalization of the education digitization program.
He also stated that the ruling provided justice for students whose data and identity were said to have been collected and stored in a certain institution.
"For this reason, we invite friends, to all Indonesian citizens, to respect what the panel of judges has decided," said Corneles.
Furthermore, Corneles denied the prosecutor's assumption of criminalizing a policy. He emphasized that the panel of judges had proven that the case was a purely law enforcement, not a criminalization of government policy.
Corneles ensured that the entire process of handling cases, from investigation, investigation, determination of suspects, to prosecution, was carried out professionally with strong analysis.
"We in the prosecutor's office will never possibly criminalize fellow countrymen," Corneles said.
The panel of judges sentenced former Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Markarim to 10 years in prison.
In its decision, the panel of judges stated that Nadiem was legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption in the procurement of chromebook laptops and chrome device management (CDM) in the Ministry of Education and Culture during the 2019-2022 budget period.
The judge said the defendant abused his authority, resulting in state losses of IDR 1.56 trillion. In addition, Nadiem was found to have received money worth IDR 809.59 billion from PT Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa through PT Gojek Indonesia.
In addition to imposing a prison sentence of 10 years, the panel of judges also sentenced Nadiem to pay a fine of Rp. 1 billion with the provision of 190 days of imprisonment.
The judge also imposed an additional penalty in the form of payment of compensation of Rp. 809 billion. If not paid, Nadiem's property will be confiscated and auctioned. If the value of the confiscated property is insufficient, the sentence will be replaced with a prison sentence of 5 years.
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