Rahmat Wibowo published 'The Phantom CEO Problem' on YouTube, showing the university records of Abil Sudarman, Marchel Shevchenko and Muhammad Alif Ramadhan from PDDikti, and calling Abil's courses 'a class in fraud'

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Rahmat Wibowo published 'The Phantom CEO Problem' on YouTube, showing the university records of Abil Sudarman, Marchel Shevchenko and Muhammad Alif Ramadhan from PDDikti, and calling Abil's courses 'a class in fraud'

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He published it on YouTube on 2 August 2026. Minute links open the video at that point.

  • Three students’ records. Presenting “the Phantom CEO problem” of young founders, he shows the PDDikti records of Muhammad Alif Ramadhan (“here’s his student number, active”), Abil Sudarman (“dropped out”) and Marchel Shevchenko, with their enrolment years and status (minute 0–3).
  • “A class in fraud.” He says Abil has no product: “What’s his product? Classes. What classes? A class in fraud” (minute 4), and places all three at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve (minute 6–8). He had grouped the same three as “phantom CEOs” in June and did so again on Threads in November.

Transcript

[YouTube video, "The Phantom CEO Problem: Abil Sudarman, Marchel Shevchenko, and Muhammad Alif Ramadhan", 2 August 2026, 9 minutes. Excerpts from YouTube's automatic captions.] [2:00] Ini dia tiga-tiganya. Ada Muhammad Alif Ramadhan, Sarjana Teknik Elektro, masuk 2021 gitu. Ini ada NIM-nya gitu, aktif. ... Abigail Aryaputra Sudarman gitu. DO gitu. (Here are all three. There's Muhammad Alif Ramadhan, electrical engineering, enrolled 2021. Here's his student number, active. ... Abigail Aryaputra Sudarman. Dropped out.) [4:00] Ababil enggak punya product ... Product-nya apa? Kelas. Kelas apa? Kelas penipuan, gitu kan. (Ababil has no product ... What's his product? Classes. What classes? A class in fraud.)