Indonesian prosecutors demanded an 18-year prison sentence for former education minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim, bringing a months-long graft trial closer to a verdict for the man who built the country’s most valuable tech startup.
Prosecutors believe the alleged corruption in the procurement of Chromebooks and CDMs has hampered the equal distribution of quality education and caused state losses amounting to trillions of rupiah.
Prosecutors demanded that former Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Nadiem Makarim be sentenced to 18 years in prison in a corruption case involving the procurement of Chromebook laptops and Chrome Device Management (CDM).