Prosecutors Demand Rp 16.9 Billion from Ibrahim Arief Despite Unproven Fund Flow in Trial

Jakarta - Former Technology Consultant in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology environment, Ibrahim Arief, has been demanded to pay restitution of Rp 16.9 billion, suspected to originate from the proceeds of criminal corruption in the information and computer technology (ICT) digitalisation programme. “Therefore, Ibrahim Arief must be imposed with restitution of Rp 16,922,945,800,” stated Public Prosecutor (JPU) Roy Riady, while reading the indictment in the trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday (16/4/2026). If this restitution is not paid, the JPU demands that Ibrahim’s assets and property be confiscated by the state. If the assets are still insufficient, Ibrahim is demanded to be sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison. In its legal considerations, the JPU mentioned that no flow of funds from the Ministry of Education’s ICT procurement for the 2020-2022 period was found. “That, although the emergence of legal facts of money flow or enrichment of Ibrahim Arief was not revealed, however, based on the annual Personal Income Tax return of the individual taxpayer in the name of Ibrahim Arief alias Ibam, there is an increase in the source of income from 2020,” said the prosecutor. The prosecutor highlighted a significant increase in Ibrahim’s personal wealth figures. In 2020, Ibrahim was recorded to have income from honorarium amounting to Rp 299,812,500. This figure increased in 2021 following an increase in share value recorded on the stock exchange. This increase coincided with the running of the procurement at the Ministry of Education, which took place in the 2020-2022 period. “Thus, the increase in income or assets of Ibrahim Arief alias Ibam is reasonably suspected to be from the proceeds of corruption,” added the prosecutor. Ibrahim is not charged with enriching himself, but rather with participating in the criminal act. The Rp 16.9 billion figure is a finding in the trial.