Rahmat Wibowo vs. a Coordinated Group of ITB Alumni: A Cease-and-Desist Summary
This post is my own account of a cease-and-desist letter (somasi) I prepared and, according to my records, issued around 3 May 2026 to a group of individuals I identify as ITB (Institut Teknologi Bandung) alumni from a single graduating cohort, over what I allege was a coordinated harassment campaign against me across social media platforms from October 2023 to May 2026. A somasi is a pre-litigation legal notice under Indonesian civil procedure — it is not a court filing, a police report, or a finding of guilt, and I later drafted (but this post does not confirm was formally accepted or acted on by police) a police complaint document covering the same allegations. None of the people named or referenced below have had a chance to respond in this post, nothing here reflects any court or police determination, and I am not asserting that any individual committed a crime. Where I did not witness something directly myself, I am relying on screenshots and records I compiled, not independent verification.
This is a distinct, narrower account than the broader institutional case I've written about separately involving AWS and ITB's curriculum. This post covers specifically the group cease-and-desist I prepared naming a group of individual alumni accounts, not the university as an institution. I've also written individual accounts for some of the alumni involved: Aria Ghora Prabono, Kadek Surya Mahardika, Marcello and Kelli, and Naufaldi Rafif Satriya.
What I allege happened
According to the timeline in my own documentation, I allege that starting around October 2023 — shortly after my departure from Amazon Web Services Indonesia — a group of accounts I associate with a single ITB alumni cohort began posting content about me that I characterize as coordinated ridicule and character assassination. I allege this continued, with varying intensity, through May 2026, spanning platforms including X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I identify one account, publicly using the handle associated with the name Marcello Faria, as what I describe in my own notes as the "primary initiator," with a larger group of other accounts I allege participated over time.
I want to be clear that these are my characterizations based on screenshots and my own recollection, not conclusions any court or investigator has reached. I have not independently authenticated every account's operator, and I have not established in any legal proceeding that the conduct I describe meets the legal thresholds I cite below.
The scale of who I named
My internal documentation lists roughly twenty individual account-holders I identified as participants, plus the one account I describe as the initiator. Given the number of people involved and the risk of turning this post into something resembling a public list of private individuals, I am deliberately not naming or listing the group here. A few names from this same broader dispute have already been discussed in separate posts on this site in other contexts; I am not repeating that here, and I am not asserting that everyone I named in my own private documentation was necessarily equally involved — my own materials use varying descriptions like "active participant" for most of the group and "primary initiator" for one account.
Legal bases I cited in the somasi
In the cease-and-desist letter, I cited a mix of Indonesian criminal and civil provisions that I believed were potentially applicable, including Article 310 and 311 of the Criminal Code (KUHP) on defamation and libel, Article 27A and Article 45 of the amended Electronic Information and Transactions Law (UU ITE No. 1/2024) on electronic defamation and spreading false information, and Article 1365 of the Civil Code (KUH Perdata) on unlawful acts (perbuatan melawan hukum). I want to note plainly that citing a provision in a demand letter is not the same as a court finding that the provision was violated — these are the legal theories I asked the recipients to consider, not adjudicated conclusions.
What I asked for
My somasi asked recipients to remove content I considered demeaning, across the platforms listed above, by a short deadline (I set it at a few days from issuance), and it outlined that if the deadline passed without what I considered an adequate response, I would consider filing a police complaint and/or a civil lawsuit. My private documentation also included a monetary demand framework — described as a range per individual and a larger amount for the account I identified as the initiator — but I am not restating specific figures here, since a settlement demand in an unaccepted cease-and-desist letter is not an amount any court has awarded or any party has agreed to pay.
Where this stands
I drafted a police-complaint document covering the same underlying allegations, referencing cyberbullying, defamation, and unlawful-acts theories against the same group. This post does not confirm whether that document was ultimately filed with, or accepted by, any specific police unit, or what came of it if so — I'm documenting the somasi and the allegations as part of my own record of this dispute, consistent with how I've documented other disputes on this site. I have real, documented mental health impacts from this broader period of my life, including a clinical diagnosis, which I've referenced in other posts on this site, and which informed why I pursued this matter formally rather than only responding on social media.
I'm not a lawyer, and nothing in this post is legal advice. A cease-and-desist letter is a demand, not a verdict; the people I named remain, at most, potential respondents to a private legal notice, not defendants in any adjudicated case, unless and until an actual court or police process says otherwise.
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Rahmat Wibowo, Founder & CEO, InfraLoka — infraloka.co.id