{"id":1003968,"date":"2026-04-21T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003968"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:35:24","slug":"google-denies-involvement-in-125-million-chromebook-graft-case-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/21\/google-denies-involvement-in-125-million-chromebook-graft-case-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Google denies involvement in $125 million Chromebook graft case in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google executives on Monday denied the company&#8217;s involvement in a massive procurement project at Indonesia&#8217;s Education Ministry that prosecutors say caused $125 million in state losses. <\/p>\n<p>Nadiem Anwar Makarim, 41, a co-founder of Indonesia&#8217;s ride-hailing and payment company Gojek, was arrested in September as a former education minister following an investigation into the alleged corruption linked to the procurement of Chromebook laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google executives on Monday denied the company&#8217;s involvement in a massive procurement project at Indonesia&#8217;s Education Ministry that prosecutors say caused $125 million in state losses. Nadiem Anwar Makarim, 41, a co-founder of Indonesia&#8217;s ride-hailing and payment company Gojek, was arrested in September as a former education minister following an investigation into the alleged corruption linked to the procurement of Chromebook laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}