BPKP Auditor: Fair Price for Chromebook is Rp 3.67 Million per Unit

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Auditor from the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) and Chairman of the State Loss Calculation Team for the Chromebook Case, Dedy Nurmawan Susilo, stated that the fair price for one Chromebook-based laptop unit is Rp 3.67 million.

Dedy conveyed this when asked for his opinion as an expert in the continuation of the trial for the alleged corruption case in the procurement of Chromebook-based laptops within the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek).

He explained that ideally, the fair price for each laptop brand differs, but BPKP took an average to determine a fair price.

“We averaged it, and it came to Rp 3.67 million,” Dedy said during the trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Thursday (2/4/2026).

The fair price calculation used a recalculation method where BPKP recalculated the components of the Chromebook laptop.

There are four components considered to form the fair cost: raw material prices, labour wages, general costs or indirect costs, and profit margins from the goods’ owners or producers.

“So, in the fair price calculation, we have already accommodated reasonable margins at the principal, distributor, and provider or reseller levels,” Dedy said.

In conducting this calculation, BPKP also directly sought statements from the principals, with at least 12 already questioned.

“We provided a format for them to fill in how much your costs are, what your cost structure is like, including the selling price to distributors. Of course, the selling price they provide (to resellers) already includes their profit margins,” he added.

Then, the data provided was analysed or compared with import documents and sales invoices to distributors.

In addition, BPKP also sought statements from five distributors to provide the same data.

The margins of these distributors vary, ranging from 2-7 percent.

Former Education Minister Nadiem Makarim is charged with causing state financial losses of Rp 2.1 trillion in the alleged corruption case of Chromebook laptop procurement.

This act was carried out jointly with three other defendants, namely former Kemendikbudristek technology consultant Ibrahim Arief, former Director of Junior High Schools at Kemendikbudristek Mulyatsyah, and former Director of Primary Schools at Kemendikbudristek Sri Wahyuningsih.