Indonesia sentences Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim to 10 years in prison over Chromebook procurement corruption
A Jakarta court found former education minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim guilty of corruption on June 30, 2026, sentencing him to 10 years in prison over a pandemic-era Chromebook procurement program that prosecutors say doubled the per-unit cost of laptops supplied to Indonesian schools. Prosecutors had sought 18 years, citing state losses of 2.1 trillion rupiah and pointing to Google's investment in Makarim's former company GoTo as relevant context. Makarim, who called the charges a