{"id":983490,"date":"2026-01-06T08:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983490"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:51:57","slug":"ex-indonesian-minister-makarim-faces-graft-charges-over-google-laptop-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/ex-indonesian-minister-makarim-faces-graft-charges-over-google-laptop-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Indonesian minister Makarim faces graft charges over Google laptop procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA: Indonesian prosecutors on Monday filed corruption charges against former education minister and \u200dthe co-founder of startup Gojek, Nadiem Makarim, over alleged improper laptop procurement during the pandemic that \u2060led to $125.64 million in state losses. <\/p>\n<p>Makarim, who resigned as chief executive of ride-hailing company Gojek in 2019 to become education minister until 2024, was accused of enriching himself by around 809 billion rupiah ($48.34 \u200cmillion) from \u200cthe procurement of Chromebook laptops and Chrome OS for schools between 2020 and 2022, prosecutors said in the first \u200ctrial hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA: Indonesian prosecutors on Monday filed corruption charges against former education minister and \u200dthe co-founder of startup Gojek, Nadiem Makarim, over alleged improper laptop procurement during the pandemic that \u2060led to $125.64 million in state losses. Makarim, who resigned as chief executive of ride-hailing company Gojek in 2019 to become education minister until 2024, was accused of enriching himself by around 809 billion rupiah ($48.34 \u200cmillion) from \u200cthe procurement of Chromebook laptops and Chrome OS for schools between 2020 and 2022, prosecutors said in the first \u200ctrial hearing.<\/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-983490","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\/983490","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=983490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}