Rahmat Wibowo vs. Julyana Sonia Darmawati: A Cease-and-Desist Over a Quote-Tweet
This post describes a formal cease-and-desist letter (Somasi No. 003/SOMASI/RW/VIII/2026) that I sent, personally and without a lawyer, on 28 August 2026, to Julyana Sonia Darmawati, who posts on X (Twitter) as @anaylujjj. This is a demand letter, not a police report, a criminal charge, or a court filing. It is not a finding of fact by any court or authority, and Ms. Darmawati has not had a chance to respond in this post. I'm not asserting her guilt of any crime. Where I'm inferring something rather than stating something I directly witnessed, I've tried to say so.
Background
According to a screenshot I have, on 17 May 2026 Ms. Darmawati quote-posted an unrelated anonymous account's post about me, which itself repeated an allegation that I "cursed a pregnant woman's unborn child with autism/madness" and described me as negligent at work. In her own added comment, she wrote — as I read the screenshot — something to the effect that a former colleague of hers had once had a workplace disagreement with someone she compared to that description, in a tone I read as affirming the original post rather than questioning it. By the time I documented it on 28 August 2026, the quote-post had accumulated a few hundred views and was still publicly visible.
The letter also flagged that the content she quote-posted used language referencing autism as an insult, and I noted that as troubling, though I want to be clear here — as I was in the somasi itself — that I don't believe this specific incident meets the legal threshold for Indonesia's Disability Rights Law (Pasal 145 jo. 143 UU No. 8/2016), which protects access to specific rights rather than covering insults that reference disability; I included it only as something I flagged normatively, not as a criminal allegation under that law.
What I asked for
I sent a copy of the letter to her employer as listed on her public LinkedIn profile, since Indonesian civil law (Pasal 1367(3) KUH Perdata) can in some circumstances extend liability to an employer when an employee's public professional identity is attached to the disputed conduct — I'm noting that as part of what the letter argues, not as a claim that the employer did anything wrong itself. I asked her to delete the quote-post, issue a public apology, stop any further related posts, and pay compensation, with a deadline of 31 August 2026. As of this writing, I don't have confirmation of whether she responded by that deadline, and no police report or lawsuit has been filed over this matter that I can point to here.
I'm documenting this because it's a direct account of a legal notice I sent over content I believe damaged my reputation, and because I think the underlying sequence — an anonymous account's original post being amplified by someone using their real, professionally-identified account — is relevant to anyone evaluating this dispute. 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