<![CDATA[While the digitalization of education is a crucial agenda in public service reform, such policies may engender governance issues if the procurement design is misaligned with actual needs, creates vulnerabilities to vendor lock-in, and involves conflicts of interest. This article analyzes the risks of regulatory capture and vendor lock-in in digital education procurement through a Maqashid Sharia perspective on public wealth governance. Employing a normative-juridical method, this research utilizes conceptual, statutory, case, and Maqashid approaches. Legal materials and literature are analyzed qualitatively, establishing hifz al-mal al-‘amm, hifz al-‘aql, amanah, wakalah, ghulul, ta’arudh al-mashalih, and sadd adz-dzari’ah as the evaluative framework. The findings indicate that digital education procurement cannot be assessed solely on procedural legality; rather, it must be scrutinized for its alignment with public needs, equitable distribution of benefits, competitive transparency, and the safeguarding of public wealth against fiscal waste and the hijacking of interests. From a Maqashid Sharia perspective, digitalization policies that prioritize hardware expenditure without ensuring foundational infrastructure readiness, pedagogical efficacy, and the mitigation of conflicts of interest risk deviating from the principle of maslahah ammah. Ultimately, this article contributes by proposing a Maqashid audit framework for public sector digital procurement, serving as a preventive instrument against regulatory capture, vendor lock-in, and fiscal misallocation in educational policy.]]>
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