Gojek co-founder sentenced to 10 years in Indonesia over school laptops corruption case

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Gojek Founder Makarim Found Guilty in Indonesia Laptops Case Former Indonesian Education Minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim was found guilty of corruption over a pandemic-era procurement of Chromebooks for schools, a ruling likely to intensify investor concerns about how Southeast Asia’s largest economy distinguishes graft from disputed policy and business decisions. The Central Jakarta District Court on Tuesday sentenced Makarim to 10 years in prison, lower than the 18 years sought by prosecutors. The 41-year-old was charged in relation to a decision to purchase more than a million Chromebooks using Google’s ChromeOS for schools from 2020 to 2022.