Rahmat Wibowo vs. Ghozy Ul Haq: A Cease-and-Desist Over a Tweet
This post describes a somasi (cease-and-desist letter) I sent to Ghozy Ul Haq on 28 August 2026 over a tweet and a repost I say discredited me and pointed readers toward an account I consider a defamation campaign against me. I have not filed a police report or civil lawsuit against Mr. Ul Haq as of this writing; the somasi itself states that formal legal steps would follow only if the letter went unanswered by a stated deadline. Sending a somasi is not a legal proceeding and is not a finding of guilt or wrongdoing — it is a private demand letter. Mr. Ul Haq has not had a chance to respond to this post, and nothing here should be read as asserting that he committed a crime or is liable for anything. Where I'm describing what I read or saw, I've tried to say so directly rather than stating it as established fact.
Background: an account I say ran a campaign against me
According to screenshots I collected, there is an anonymous X (Twitter) account using the display name "Kawal Rahmat Wibowo" that has published claims about me, including an allegation that I "cursed a pregnant woman so her child would be autistic," a claim that I am "the child of the owner of SPPG MBG," and a suggestion that I was negligent in my work. I consider these claims false, unproven, and — in the case of the autism reference — needlessly tied to disability as an insult. I don't know who operates that account.
The tweet I'm referring to
On 21 July 2026, in a thread where another account had posted a screenshot of a legal write-up I had published, an X account with the username "ghozyulhaq" (display name "Ghozy Ul-Haq") replied to that thread with a line that translates roughly as "before you believe what he wrote, go read @KawalRahmatwi first." Based on screenshots I have, that reply had reached at least 1,748 views by the time I checked it in late August 2026, and I understand from account activity records I reviewed that the same account had also reposted content from the "Kawal Rahmat Wibowo" campaign.
In my reading, that reply pointed readers of the thread toward the anonymous account's claims about me at the exact moment they were reading something I had written, and did so without any indication that the underlying claims had been checked or verified. I don't know Mr. Ul Haq's intent, and I'm not asserting that he wrote or controls the "Kawal Rahmat Wibowo" account itself — only that he referenced and, as far as I could tell from the activity records, reposted its content.
Why I flagged his public profile
My somasi copied the Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK) and the Universitas Indonesia alumni association, because — based on a LinkedIn profile I reviewed — the X account's owner publicly lists a role as an analyst at OJK and a master's degree from Universitas Indonesia. I referenced that public professional identity only because it was attached to the same persona posting under the ghozyulhaq handle, not to suggest OJK or the university had any role in this dispute.
What I asked for
In the somasi (No. 004/SOMASI/RW/VIII/2026, dated 28 August 2026), I asked Mr. Ul Haq to, within three calendar days (by 31 August 2026, 17:00 WIB):
- permanently delete the 21 July 2026 tweet and any related reposts, comments, or replies referencing me;
- publish an open apology on the same account, viewable for at least 14 days, with a copy sent to me by email;
- stop any further posts, links, reposts, or publications that could harm my reputation; and
- pay non-material damages, which I calculated in the letter at roughly Rp533,333,334.
I also offered to resolve the matter through direct communication or a meeting instead of escalating.
What I said would happen if the deadline passed
The letter stated that if the deadline passed without a response or resolution, I intended to consider filing two separate police reports — one referencing alleged written defamation and one referencing alleged slander, both under Indonesia's new Criminal Code — as well as a civil lawsuit for unlawful acts (perbuatan melawan hukum) under the Civil Code, and that I might publish the somasi itself as a form of self-defense. As of this writing, I have not filed a police report or a lawsuit related to this matter; those were stated as steps I might take next, not steps I have taken.
I'm not a lawyer, and legal thresholds like defamation or slander depend on facts and analysis a court would ultimately have to weigh — my own letter itself flags some of that analysis as conditional or as depending on evidence I don't yet have (for example, whether a claim can be proven false in a way that meets a higher legal standard). I'm documenting this because it's a direct account of a dispute I initiated through a written demand, and because I believe the sequence of events is relevant to anyone evaluating it. 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