{"id":2533,"date":"2026-06-30T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:11:28","slug":"gojek-founder-makarim-found-guilty-in-indonesia-chromebooks-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"Gojek founder Makarim found guilty in Indonesia Chromebooks case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Central Jakarta District Court on Tuesday sentenced Makarim to 10 years in prison, lower than the\u00a018 years\u00a0sought by prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2531\">This summer\u2019s heat is a live stress test for data centers\u2014here\u2019s what it\u2019s revealing in real time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judges, reading from parts of a more than 1,100-page decision, also ordered him to pay financial penalties of more than 800 billion rupiah ($44.7 million) or face an additional five years in prison. Prosecutors had sought more than 5.7 trillion rupiah.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 41-year-old was charged in relation to a decision to purchase more than a million Chromebooks using Google\u2019s ChromeOS for schools from 2020 to 2022. Prosecutors accused him of overpaying for laptops and software, ignoring internal evaluations, and receiving 809 billion rupiah as an alleged reward linked to the procurement, pointing to Google\u2019s investment in his former company as evidence of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Makarim denied all charges, arguing that the prices paid were below-market, that the internal evaluations were outdated and at odds with the urgent demands of schooling during the Covid-19 pandemic. His lawyers also argued the alleged gains was standard pre-IPO administrative restructuring funds that never flowed to him personally.<\/p>\n<p>His defense also argued that prosecutors failed to prove bad intent, personal enrichment or a direct link between the laptop program and Google\u2019s investment in Gojek-related entities.<\/p>\n<p>Makarim was greeted ahead of the hearing by dozens of supporters, many of them Gojek drivers wearing the company\u2019s signature green jackets. The Harvard Business School graduate wiped away tears as supporters offered prayers, embraced him and shook his hand. Some sang in Indonesian: \u201cFree Nadiem now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2529\">Top climate tech exec: Europe is sweating through a heat crisis America solved decades ago<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Inside the courthouse, Makarim, dressed in a batik shirt, sat before the panel of judges for more than four hours as they read out their decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case has been viewed as a test of legal certainty in Indonesia, where a series of recent graft rulings have raised questions over whether disputed policy choices and business risks can later be treated as criminal acts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former executives of state-backed venture capital firms recently were sentenced over failed investments in agritech startup TaniHub, a case critics says effectively criminalized standard market risk. Also contentious was last year\u2019s jailing of former Trade Minister Thomas Lembong over sugar import permits a decade ago despite no evidence of personal financial gain. 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