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View all search resultsGoogle has denied any involvement in the corruption case that centered on a laptop procurement policy at the education ministry between 2019 and 2022, saying it never made use of its ties with former minister Nadiem Makarim to win any government contracts.
Former education minister Nadiem Makarim told reporters that he accepted the court’s decision to reject his pretrial motion that challenged the Attorney General’s Office’s (AGO) naming him a suspect.
Former education minister Nadiem Makarim has filed a pretrial motion at the South Jakarta District Court to challenge his status as a suspect in an alleged graft case related to the procurement of Chromebook laptops at the then-education, culture, research and technology ministry between 2019 and 2022.
The graft allegations against former education minister Nadiem Makarim have cast a harsh light on the education sector’s vulnerability to corruption, fueling calls for systemic reform ahead of what will be the country’s largest-ever education budget next year.
Nadiem Makarim’s legal team contests the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) decision to name its client as a corruption suspect, as it contends that the procurement of Google Chromebook laptops during his tenure as education minister had previously been cleared in two government audits.
Former education, culture, research and technology minister Nadiem Makarim allegedly abused his authority to rig a tender for a milti-trillion-rupiah school digitalization project that would favor tech company Google, according to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO).
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