Johnny Gerard Plate (born 10 September 1956) is an Indonesian politician and businessman who served as Minister of Communication and Information Technology in Joko Widodo's Onward Indonesia Cabinet from 2019 to 2023.

[1] The Attorney General of Indonesia formally made him a suspect of a Rp 8 trillion (USD 550 million) graft case related to Base Transceiver Station projects between 2020 and 2022.

[5][7] Plate ran in the 2014 legislative election as a Nasdem Party candidate in the East Nusa Tenggara 1 electoral district, and he successfully secured a seat after winning 33,704 votes.

[14] Plate is alleged to have demanded a monthly payment of 500 million rupiah and refused to conduct a feasibility study for the 4G base transceiver station project.

[16] During the trial, Plate claimed that the construction of the stations was ordered by Indonesian President Joko Widodo and that he did not initiate the project with the intention of making a personal profit.