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        "id": 1832071,
        "msgid": "nadiem-i-was-sentenced-to-prison-based-on-absurd-facts-1782813356",
        "date": "2026-06-30 16:07:53",
        "title": "Nadiem: I was sentenced to prison based on absurd facts",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Legal",
        "summary": "Former Indonesian Education Minister Nadiem Anwar Makarim has denounced his 10-year prison sentence for corruption as being based on 'absurd facts', claiming the judges ignored trial evidence. The court found him guilty of misusing authority in a laptop procurement scheme that caused state losses of Rp1.56 trillion, though one judge issued a dissenting opinion calling for his acquittal. The case highlights significant controversy within Indonesia's judicial system over the handling of high-profile corruption trials.",
        "content": "<p>Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology for the\n2019\u20132024 period, Nadiem Anwar Makarim, stated that the prison sentence\nhanded down to him was based on absurd facts. \u2018Today we pose a very big\nquestion to our legal system. Does truth, does justice, still have any\nmeaning? Today it is answered, all the court facts were ignored,\u2019 Nadiem\nsaid while speaking to the media after the sentencing hearing at the\nCorruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court on Tuesday.\nNadiem admitted that during the verdict hearing he listened to the\njudges speak, but the four judges who sentenced him to 10 years in\nprison could not look him directly in the eye. He said he knew the\nhearts of those judges, who understood he was not guilty. However, the\ntruth came from one other judge who had the courage to state what was\nactually the fact of the trial. \u2018There was one dissenting opinion, Judge\nAndi, who laid out the truth bluntly and said I should be acquitted\nunconditionally,\u2019 he said. In addition to the prison sentence, he was\nalso fined Rp1 billion, subsidiary to 190 days imprisonment, and ordered\nto pay compensation of Rp809.59 billion, subsidiary to 5 years\nimprisonment. The compensation was imposed after he was proven to have\nreceived Rp809.59 billion originating from PT Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa\n(PT AKAB) through PT Gojek Indonesia. It was stated that the majority of\nPT AKAB\u2019s funds came from a Google investment worth 786.99 million US\ndollars. In this case, Nadiem was proven to have abused his authority,\ncausing state losses of Rp1.56 trillion. The corruption was allegedly\ncarried out, among other things, by procuring information and\ncommunication technology-based learning facilities in the form of\nChromebook laptops and CDM for the 2020, 2021, and 2022 fiscal years,\nwhich did not comply with procurement planning and principles. The\nactions of the technology company founder were declared to have been\ncarried out together with three other defendants who have been sentenced\nin separate trials, namely Ibrahim Arief alias Ibam, Mulyatsyah and Sri\nWahyuningsih, as well as Jurist Tan, who is currently a fugitive.\nConsequently, the former Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and\nTechnology was proven to have violated criminal provisions stipulated in\nArticle 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999\nconcerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and\nsupplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55\nparagraph (1) of the Criminal Code.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/nadiem-i-was-sentenced-to-prison-based-on-absurd-facts-1782813356",
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