This CEO Reveals Accused in Chromebook Case Rejected Job Offer of Rp 280 Million per Month
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - CEO of startup Amartha and former Special Staff to Indonesia’s 7th President Joko Widodo, Andi Taufan Garuda Putra, admitted to offering a salary of Rp 280 million per month to Ibrahim Arief, who previously served as a technology consultant in the ministry led by Nadiem Makarim.
“Besides the journey in GovTech, (Ibrahim) doesn’t want to explore other opportunities? Well, that’s what I offered,” Andi said during the trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Tuesday (7/4/2026).
Andi Taufan spoke when presented as a mitigating witness for Ibrahim in the alleged corruption case regarding the procurement of Chromebook-based laptops.
Andi admitted to offering the position to Ibrahim due to his similar background experience. It is known that Ibrahim is the CEO at Bukalapak, one of Indonesia’s unicorn startups.
“From a technology competency perspective, then from a leadership side in building the organisation, building the engineering team, and how he empowers the people there,” Andi explained.
“We even discussed me offering the proposal to join Amartha, with the package, the compensation, how much the salary, the take-home pay he would receive,” Andi clarified.
At that time, Ibrahim was offered a salary of Rp 280 million per month before tax deductions.
“Earlier, from gross Rp 280 million, maybe net around Rp 200 million,” Andi said.
In addition, Ibrahim was also offered shares in Amartha amounting to 2.5 percent or equivalent to 5 million US dollars (USD).
These shares could only be sold if Ibrahim had worked at Amartha for more than four years.
However, this offer was not taken because Ibrahim chose to focus on the project underway in the ministry led by Nadiem Makarim at that time.
“Ibam said he still wanted to commit to his current job, couldn’t leave it yet because the work was still ongoing. What he was building in GovTech wasn’t finished yet. Okay, I respected Ibam’s decision at that time,” Andi added.
During the same period, Ibrahim Arief was one of the technology consultants at the Centre for Education and Policy Studies Foundation (PSPK), which partnered with the Ministry of Education and Culture.