Rahmat Wibowo's 26-page “final warning” to Steven Nataniel Kodyat over posts on X from October 2023, demanding Rp3 billion, a permanently pinned video apology in two languages that acknowledges Rahmat as “an honourable person”, and a meeting at Rahmat's own home, and telling Steven not to reply unless through a lawyer

What this document is

A further legal notice and final warning (Surat Somasi Lanjutan dan Peringatan Terakhir, subtitled Surat Peringatan Hukum — Versi Publik, “legal warning letter, public version”). It is numbered 291/SOMASI/RW/X/2026 and dated Saturday, 24 October 2026. It is from Rahmat Wibowo of Kota Bekasi, acting “for and on behalf of myself as the injured party (Victim/Complainant)”, and addressed to “Sdr. Steven Nataniel Kodyat (nickname “Viel”)”, X account @velcrossze, “now with the display name ‘rivell’ and username @rivell291 (account locked)”. The only copy is to “Arsip” (file). It closes: “This letter is a personal somasi delivered directly by the injured party without going through a lawyer.”

What it says

1. The earlier letters. It lists the dispute so far: a “second and final” somasi, No. 09/NAS-SS/IV/2026 of 13 April 2026, sent through the law office of Naupal Al Rasyid, S.H., M.H. & Rekan, which Steven rejected in full on 28 April 2026; Rahmat’s own somasi 036/SOMASI/RW/IV/2026 of 29 April; a “counter-reply” of 5 May; and a “defence brief and proof of mens rea” updated on 11 August 2026.
2. The posts. Posts on X from 3 to 19 October 2023, quoted as he gives them: “tutorial menjadi munafik” (“a tutorial on being a hypocrite”), 14.3 thousand views; “semakin kesini terlihat semakin ga waras” (“looks more and more insane”), 44.8 thousand views; a thread with 1.4 million views listing “1. rahmat wibowo selalu benar, paling baik, dicinta Allah, yang si paling paling” (“1. rahmat wibowo is always right, the best, loved by God, the most-est”); a reply in that thread wondering whether he “uses illegal drugs to hallucinate and to be so thick-skinned”; and “abis gorengannya, ga ada bahan” (“out of fried snacks, nothing left to work with”).
3. Religion and disability. Section III treats “dicinta Allah” as possible hostility towards religion under Articles 300 and 301 of the Criminal Code. It treats Steven’s blocking him, not giving his home address, refusing any meeting and saying his lawyer was “in the process of being appointed” as obstructing the rights of a person with a mental disability under Articles 145 and 143(r) of Law 8/2016. He asks that his disability be weighed as an aggravating factor.
4. “Drafted with AI.” Section IV says Steven’s reply “is strongly suspected of having been drafted with artificial intelligence without verification”, partly because it calls his employer “PT Xendit Indonesia” instead of its legal name, PT Sinar Digital Terdepan.
5. How Steven would become a suspect. Section VII walks through the criminal procedure step by step, from the report and the inquiry to naming the suspect and handing the file to prosecutors. Section VIII tables the prison terms and fines for each article, up to “6 years 2 months 20 days” combined.
6. The demands (Section IX). Delete the posts and anything else about him on any platform; publish a permanent apology on all his social media accounts, “including but not limited to Instagram, LinkedIn, X and Threads”, with the accounts unlocked and the apology pinned at the top of each profile, in writing and on video, each in Indonesian and in English, withdrawing the accusations and expressing “regret and an acknowledgement that I am an honourable person”; stop posting about him, “including to my family”, and stop the “threat of public reporting” on the legal steps he takes; pay Rp3,000,000,000 (three billion rupiah) in damages; answer any police summons; and preserve all evidence.
7. A meeting at his home. Compliance is to come with “a discussion meeting on Wednesday, 28 October 2026 at 09:00 WIB at my (the Complainant’s) address in Kota Bekasi”, the same hour as the deadline and Youth Pledge Day. The full address will be given after Steven confirms by email. “Absence without confirmation I will record as a refusal of an amicable settlement.” Complying “does not by itself stop the criminal process that is under way”.
8. Do not reply. Section X: “If you do not yet have a lawyer, or your lawyer is still being appointed, you need not and are asked not to reply to this somasi.”
9. What follows. Section XI: if the demands are not met by 28 October at 09:00, he will give the somasi to investigators “to support the case hearing to raise the status to Investigation, the sending of the SPDP to the Prosecutor’s Office, and the naming of a Suspect”, file a civil suit for Rp3 billion, seek restitution, and report the posts to X and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs.
10. His own exhibits. Among them: B-9, a Google search for “dipecat aws” (“fired aws”) whose AI Overview describes “Kasus Viral Rahmat Wibowo”, the viral case of an ITB graduate let go during his probation at Amazon; and B-14, pages of Steven’s reply recording that Rahmat posted on LinkedIn about delivering a legal notice to Xendit’s office and sent LinkedIn messages about Steven to Xendit’s Head of People and CEO.

Observations

1. No sign the author has legal training. The letter names no law degree, advocate licence or law firm, has no letterhead, and says it is a personal somasi “without going through a lawyer”. Nothing in it, or on this site, shows he has a legal background or works as a legal professional. He describes himself as a senior cloud and DevOps engineer and CEO of a startup, and is an electrical engineering and informatics graduate of ITB. The April somasi in the same series did go through a law office. Yet this one asks Steven not to reply unless he has a lawyer.
2. Suspected to be AI-generated. The letter itself does not say who or what drafted it, so this is an inference. But Rahmat has said he uses AI to issue legal notices: in June 2026 he announced “Legal AI Infrastructure” that identifies statutes and drafts the notice (ev-20260608-002), his company sells “SOMASI as a Service” (ev-20261017-006), and when others called his somasi AI-generated he did not deny it, arguing instead that an AI-assisted notice is still valid (ev-20260728-022). A 26-page letter with a statute table for every article, in one uniform format, from someone with no known legal training, fits that pattern. The letter itself calls Steven’s reply AI-written, over one wrongly named company.
3. He kept insulting Steven in public. After Steven’s reply of 28 April 2026, Rahmat repeatedly attacked him on social media: on 14 May he put Steven’s “estimated IQ” at 95–105 and his “emotional maturity” at 15–18 years (ev-20260514-001); on 26 May he called Steven “my main harasser” and went after his undergraduate thesis (ev-20260526-003); on 27 May he shared Steven’s personal details (ev-20260527-005); on 7 June he dedicated an article on “algorithms playing lawyer” to him (ev-20260607-007, ev-20260607-010); and on 7 October he mocked him as a “pel-pel-pelcrossze” who would mop a prison floor (ev-20261007-002).
4. Hypocrisy. The letter demands of Steven what Rahmat does not do himself. It demands that Steven delete his posts, stop posting about him, stop the “threat of public reporting” on his legal steps and apologise for mocking him, in a letter Rahmat published himself. Yet Rahmat mocked Steven as a prison mopper 17 days before the letter, and on 19 October, five days before it, he posted a warning that “azab” (divine punishment) would come to those he tagged, while naming Steven (ev-20261019-002). It treats “dicinta Allah” as mocking his faith, yet in that same 19 October post he wrote that he might be a “Wali Allah” and that whoever fights one has declared war on God. It accuses Steven of using Rahmat’s family as “a channel of pressure”, while its own exhibit B-14 shows that Rahmat messaged the CEO and Head of People of Steven’s employer about him. And it treats Steven’s reply as suspect because it was strongly suspected of being drafted with AI and was signed without counsel, while Rahmat markets AI-drafted notices, defended an “AI-assisted” notice as valid (ev-20260728-022), and signed this letter without counsel himself.
5. Three-year-old posts. The posts are from October 2023, weeks after AWS let him go on 14 September 2023. Three years later the amount is Rp3 billion, more than five times the Rp533 million he demanded in his August 2026 notices to other people who had posted about him (doc-20260828-001). The 1.4 million views he counts are almost all for the one numbered list.
6. An apology that calls him honourable. The apology must be permanent, pinned, on every account, in writing and on video, in two languages, and must include the statement that he is “an honourable person”. Its wording is set by him.
7. Come to my house. The letter tells Steven to come to Rahmat’s home four days after its date and says that not turning up will be recorded against him, in the same letter that calls Steven’s refusal to meet an obstruction of the rights of a person with a disability. Four days later, on 28 October, Rahmat posted that Steven “keeps failing to show up” and could be named a suspect (ev-20261028-002).
8. A joke about him becomes an offence against religion. The words “dicinta Allah” (“loved by God”) in a list mocking him as someone who thinks he is always right are presented as hostility towards religion, with prison terms attached.
9. “The criminal process that is under way.” The letter speaks of a process under way and of a suspect being named, but the public version gives no police report number. Instead it sets out how suspects are named in general.
10. His own exhibits. B-9, offered as proof of the harm to his reputation, is a search result about his own dismissal from AWS. B-14 records, in Steven’s words, that Rahmat contacted Steven’s employer’s CEO and Head of People about him.

Pages still needed

All 26 pages were captured. A few lines on pages 1, 3, 17 and 24 and the bottom of page 26 went past too quickly in the video.