Rahmat Wibowo accused Dinda Rhapsodya of Liven and Dian Hamama of AWS of wrongfully terminating him twice due to 'crab mentality,' claiming they targeted him as a rising Indonesian professional and weaponized HR processes against him.
| ID | ev-20260626-008 |
|---|---|
| Source | Rahmat Wibowo LinkedIn |
| Targets | Dinda Rhapsodya Dian Hamama |

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| was wrongfully terminated. Twice. By Dinda
Rhapsodya from Liven and Dian Hamama
from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Not for poor performance. Not for policy
violations. But because | was visible.
Because | was growing. Because someone
decided a rising Indonesian professional was
a threat, not an asset.
That is crab mentality at work.
“Mental kepiting” is not just a phrase in
Indonesia. It is a documented organizational
phenomenon.
‘A 2025 study from Bandung City identified
three structural roots: individual insecurity,
toxic social dynamics, and failed
organizational leadership.
A separate Papua study found that targets
experience isolation, mistrust, and alienation.
These are not abstract outcomes. These are
real careers destroyed.
Here is how it operates inside corporations:
Performance narratives get distorted ("you
just got lucky")
Information is gatekept to slow your progress
Formal HR and performance processes get
weaponized against you
Manufactured consensus replaces objective
evaluation
HRBP functions get captured by the very
managers being complained about
The foreign manager dimension makes it
worse.
No shared community.
No social accountability.
The cost of wrongful conduct is effectively
zero.
But here is what most people do not know:
Indonesian labor law explicitly prohibits
termination based on discrimination.
You have the right to contest.
You have the right to the Industrial Relations
Court. Documentation is your armor.
The crab bucket is real.
Ithas no borders.
It operates in the most sophisticated
multinational corporations on earth.
But it is not permanent.
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