Former Technology Consultant Ibrahim Arief Demanded 15 Years in Prison in Chromebook Corruption Case

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Former Technology Consultant in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology environment, Ibrahim Arief, has been demanded a 15-year prison sentence in the alleged procurement case of Chromebook-based laptops from 2019 to 2022. “We demand that the panel of judges impose a prison sentence on the defendant Ibrahim Arief of 15 years with a fine of Rp 1 billion subsidiary 190 days in prison,” stated Public Prosecutor (JPU) Roy Riady while reading the indictment at the trial in the Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday (16/4/2026). If this money is not paid, the JPU demands that Ibrahim be given an additional prison sentence of 7.5 years. In this case, Ibrahim, or commonly called Ibam, is believed to have created a technical study that referred to a specific product, namely Chromebook. In addition, Ibrahim also presented several materials to ministry officials. This presentation influenced the ministry officials to choose Chromebook as the product to be procured. “We demand that the panel of judges impose a prison sentence on the defendant of 6 years with a fine of Rp 500 million subsidiary 120 days in prison,” stated JPU Roy Riady. Sri is suspected of pressuring several commitment-making officials (PPK) to choose Chromebook as the product to be procured. The first official pressured by Sri was Bambang Hadi Waluyo. However, because Bambang did not want to choose Chromebook on the existing e-catalogue, he was replaced by another official named Wahyu. Sri also ordered Wahyu to change the e-catalogue method to SIPLAH (School Procurement Information System). In addition, Mulyatsyah has also been demanded to pay restitution of Rp 2.2 billion subsidiary 3 years in prison. Mulyatsyah committed similar acts to Sri.