Rahmat Wibowo vs. Galih Indra Firmansyah: A Cease-and-Desist Over Tweets About My AWS Departure
This post describes a cease-and-desist letter (somasi) I sent to Galih Indra Firmansyah, who posts as @gif_tech on X (Twitter), on 30 August 2026. Sending a somasi is not a lawsuit, a police report, or any kind of legal proceeding, and it is not a finding by any court or authority that Galih Indra Firmansyah did anything wrong. This is my account of what I read and what I asked him to do about it. He has not had a chance to respond in this post, and I am not asserting his guilt of any offense.
What I found
On 30 August 2026, I came across posts on X made by the account @gif_tech, which I identified as belonging to Galih Indra Firmansyah based on a LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/galihif) with a matching photo, listing him as a Mobile Platform Engineer/IT Specialist at PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA) since September 2023, and as a graduate of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM).
According to the tweets I reviewed, on 4 December 2023 the account posted that a conference speaker had been "fired from AWS two months ago for leaking internal data, then sulked and raged, even exposing a confidential employment contract on YouTube," calling it a sarcastic "successful start to a career." I believe this was directed at my departure from AWS. In replies on the same thread, the account added a line acknowledging awareness that the situation could lead to "doxxing," questioned how the person referenced still got a new job despite their "attitude," and, when another user commented that everyone makes mistakes and deserves a chance to improve, replied that the issue wasn't the firing itself but the person's "denial, narcissistic" behavior afterward. On 14 April 2026, the same account quote-reposted the original December 2023 tweet, adding a new comment, which republished the same claims to a new audience more than two years later.
I want to be direct about my own position on the substance: I did not leak internal company data, and I did not publish a confidential employment contract on YouTube or anywhere else. I don't know what information, if any, the account was relying on when it made those claims.
The somasi I sent
On 30 August 2026, I sent a formal somasi (cease-and-desist letter, No. 028/SOMASI/RW/VIII/2026) to Galih Indra Firmansyah, with copies noted to BCA and to the UGM alumni association (KAGAMA), given his stated affiliations with both. In it, I asked him to, within three calendar days: delete the posts in question, including the 2023 thread and the 2026 quote-repost; issue a public apology on @gif_tech acknowledging the claims about data leaking and contract exposure were unfounded; stop any further statements along these lines; and pay immaterial damages, which I calculated at Rp533,333,334 based on a multiple of the maximum fine under the defamation and slander provisions of Indonesia's new Criminal Code (Pasal 433 jo. Pasal 441, and Pasal 434 jo. Pasal 441 KUHP Baru). The letter noted that if the deadline passed without resolution, I intended to consider filing separate police reports and a civil claim, and it invited him to reach out directly to resolve the matter by agreement instead.
I'm not a lawyer, and a somasi is a demand letter, not a verdict. Whether any of the legal provisions I cited actually apply is something only a court or investigator could determine — I'm laying out my own reasoning for why I believe they might, not asserting that they do. I'm documenting this because it's a direct, factual account of a dispute I'm currently pursuing through the proper legal channels, and because I believe it's relevant to anyone evaluating this situation. For more on how Indonesia's electronic information law actually works in practice, see my explainer on the ITE Law.
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Rahmat Wibowo, Founder & CEO, InfraLoka — infraloka.co.id