Jakarta, June 27 -- Indonesia's Attorney General's Office (AGO) has imposed a six-month travel ban on former education minister Nadiem Makarim amid an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption involving the procurement of Chromebooks.

Harli Siregar, head of the AGO's legal information center, said on Friday that the case relates to the Ministry of Education's Chromebook procurement between 2019 and 2022.

He explained that in 2020, several parties allegedly reached an agreement to proceed with the procurement. A technical team was instructed to conduct a study and prepare a plan to supply Chromebooks for use in the national digital learning program.

However, an earlier test conducted by the ministry's IT and Data Center in 2019 on a...