Submission Statement: Nadiem Makarim, Gojek co-founder and Indonesia’s former Education Minister, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 1 billion rupiah, with an order to pay 809.6 billion rupiah (~US$45 million) in restitution, over a pandemic-era program that procured about 1.1 million Chromebook laptops between 2020 and 2022. Prosecutors alleged he steered technical specifications toward Google products and personally benefited via Gojek’s parent company; Google has denied wrongdoing, saying its investments predated Makarim’s ministerial appointment.
Relevant here: Makarim was once hailed as the archetypal “bring outside talent into government” technocrat, and this case is now considered a live test of whether that pipeline survives contact with Prabowo’s new management style.
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Tech CEO turned Education Minister has been jailed for 15 years, effectively, for purchasing too many chromebooks
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Submission Statement: Nadiem Makarim, Gojek co-founder and Indonesia’s former Education Minister, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 1 billion rupiah, with an order to pay 809.6 billion rupiah (~US$45 million) in restitution, over a pandemic-era program that procured about 1.1 million Chromebook laptops between 2020 and 2022. Prosecutors alleged he steered technical specifications toward Google products and personally benefited via Gojek’s parent company; Google has denied wrongdoing, saying its investments predated Makarim’s ministerial appointment.
Relevant here: Makarim was once hailed as the archetypal “bring outside talent into government” technocrat, and this case is now considered a live test of whether that pipeline survives contact with Prabowo’s new management style.
Tech CEO turned Education Minister has been jailed for 15 years, effectively, for purchasing too many chromebooks
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