Gojek co-founder and former Education Minister Nadiem Makarim has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of corruption.
Makarim, a former billionaire and symbol of Indonesia’s tech boom, says the verdict is politically motivated and plans to appeal.
This morning, after Nadiem was sentenced to 10 years in jail, it’s clear that Google needs to take a strong official stand.
The Indonesian judges sullied Google’s name, claiming without evidence the U.S. giant engaged in bribery to win a Chromebook laptop contract.
In this fiction, Google invested in Nadiem’s company, GoJek. In return, Nadiem, who left GoJek to become Education Minister, ordered the purchase of Chromebooks.
Prosecutors failed to put any evidence forward to back this defamatory allegation. Yet Nadiem got 10 years. Why? Because he tried to reform a corrupt ministry and made a lot of enemies.
How can Google remain silent in the face of these baseless allegations. Just because a judge said it, doesn’t make it any less defamatory.
I would expect Sapna Chadha and other senior Google leaders in the region to show the backbone to speak up now. Nadiem was Google’s trusted partner for years. They invested in his company. Will they remain quiet just to protect their business in Indonesia. Where are they in his time of need?
I apologize to our brothers and sisters in Palestine, especially Gaza, that in the mean time, we, Indonesians, must re-focus our attention to domestic issue, which is OUR GOVERNMENT INFECTED BY ZIONISM AND DRAINING OUR NATIONAL BUDGET DRY.
🇮🇩 | Indonesian students are smashing through police barricades as a massive wave of defiance sweeps the country.
For a solid week, student-led coalitions have shut down streets nationwide, escalating their fury against the Prabowo government's devastating economic policies and deep-seated corruption scandals.
Frontline activists warn that the administration is driving the country straight into economic collapse.
Protesters are also resisting the expanding footprint of the military in civilian spaces, ringing alarm bells over a dangerous slide back into the brutal, Suharto-era dictatorship.
🇮🇩 | Indonesian students are smashing through police barricades as a massive wave of defiance sweeps the country.
For a solid week, student-led coalitions have shut down streets nationwide, escalating their fury against the Prabowo government's devastating economic policies and deep-seated corruption scandals.
Frontline activists warn that the administration is driving the country straight into economic collapse.
Protesters are also resisting the expanding footprint of the military in civilian spaces, ringing alarm bells over a dangerous slide back into the brutal, Suharto-era dictatorship.
They spent $75 billion fighting Iran, then another $300 billion rebuilding Iran, just to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the war started.
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Yesterday, police CLASHED with THOUSANDS of students, who were protesting in Bandung, Indonesia.
PRES. PRABOWO AND HIS INTERVENTIONIST ECONOMIC POLICIES ARE TANKING THE RUPIAH.