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Gojek co-founder a corruption suspect
Bangkok Post
|September 06, 2025
Indonesian investigators on Thursday named a former education minister and co-founder of ride-hailing firm Gojek, Nadiem Makarim, as a suspect in a corruption case about alleged improper laptop procurement and said he had been detained.
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An investigator at the attorney general’s office said Mr Makarim would be detained for 20 days while the investigation proceeds.
Mr Makarim, education minister between 2019 and 2024, was accused of involvement in the procurement of Google's Chromebook laptops for use at his ministry and by students, said investigator Nurcahyo Jungkung Madyo.
“T did not do anything. God will protect me, the truth will come out,” local media reported Mr Makarim as saying before leaving the prosecutors’ office to a detention house.
His lawyer did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
This story is from the September 06, 2025 edition of Bangkok Post.
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