Indonesia Ex-Minister Makarim Faces 18 Years in Jail in Chromebooks Case

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.

In seeking the sentence at the Central Jakarta District Court on Wednesday, prosecutors said Makarim caused state losses of 2.1 trillion rupiah ($120 million) in a pandemic-era school laptop procurement program involving Chromebooks and Google device-management software.