Rahmat Wibowo, calling himself 'Megumi', ran a four-post Threads thread 'reviewing' months-old X posts about the 'alleged fake credentials' of Marchel Andrian Shevchenko, four days before Marchel's 8 November online talk, tagging Marchel, the talk's organisers and partners and MIT in every post; he attached an AI thumbnail built from Marchel's student record, 'Katanya kuliah S3 di MIT, padahal belum lulus S1!', laughed that his startup's domain had been taken over and turned into an online gambling site, though the X post he attached says only that the website was broken, and used him to take another swipe at Ibrahim Arief, the 'corruption defendant', asking why Marchel's name was 'still clean' and answering himself: 'oh right, he's not on the blacklist 😂😂😂'.
| ID | ev-20261104-003 |
|---|---|
| Source | Rahmat Wibowo Threads |
| Modus operandi | Swarming Manipulation of Public Opinion |
| Targets | Marchel Shevchenko Ibrahim Arief Eza Hazami Achmad Zaky |

Transcript
[Threads post 1/4 — rweebs21 › Tech Threads]
meta.ai Wahai Warga @threads Saya Rahmat Wibowo sebagai Megumi alias Rahmat
akan meREVIEW utas mengenai dugaan kredensial palsu dari Marchel Andrian
Shevchenko @chenko_07 @startupbandung @aiconnect.id @indigo.telkom
@garudaspark @bandungtechnopark @mit @laporkanrahmatwibowo
(meta.ai, O citizens of @threads, I, Rahmat Wibowo as Megumi, a.k.a.
Rahmat, will REVIEW the thread about the alleged fake credentials of
Marchel Andrian Shevchenko.)
[Attached 1: a thumbnail: the MIT logo and dome, a photo of Marchel, and
his record on the higher-education database PDDikti: "MARCHEL ANDRIAN
SHEVCHENKO — Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta — Sarjana - Informatika —
Tanggal Masuk 22 September 2020 — … Status Terakhir Mahasiswa Non-Aktif
2025/2026 Genap", with "Klaim: 'Bisa kuliah S3 di MIT (Ranking 1 dunia)'",
"FAKE?" and "KATANYA KULIAH S3 DI MIT, PADAHAL BELUM LULUS S1!" ("Claim:
'Can do a PhD at MIT (world no. 1)'. Says he's doing a PhD at MIT, but
hasn't finished his bachelor's!")]
[Attached 2: an Instagram post by "startupbandung and 4 others": "Danantara
Indonesia — AI Connect — AI Introductory — The Founders' Trinity – Be The
Hacker: Make It Work — Speaker: Marchel Andrian Shevchenko, Founder of Data
Sorcerers — Minggu 08 Nov 2026, 13.00 - 15.00 WIB — Online by Zoom"]
[Label under the post: "AI content"]
[Threads post 2/4 — rweebs21 › Tech Threads]
meta.ai jelasin mengenai dugaan kredensial palsu dari Marchel Andrian
Shevchenko perkara posisi ybs di formulatrix @chenko_07 @startupbandung
@aiconnect.id @indigo.telkom @garudaspark @bandungtechnopark @mit
@laporkanrahmatwibowo
(meta.ai, explain the alleged fake credentials of Marchel Andrian
Shevchenko regarding his position at Formulatrix.)
[Attached: a screenshot of an X post by dogfiles (@0xrsydn), 3:43 PM ·
3/6/26:]
sudah dijelaskan oleh employernya langsung dan quick search google juga
bisa sebenernya despite confirm kalo dapet email offer (atau interview?
disensor semua bjir) x.com/Kkaebyun99/sta…
(It was already explained by his employer directly, and a quick Google
search would do too, despite confirming that he got an offer email (or an
interview? everything is censored, lol).)
[Google search "kapan formulatrix didirikan di indonesia?", AI Overview:
"Formulatrix didirikan di Indonesia pada tahun 2006 …"]
[Reply — haritsahm (@haritsahmukhlis), 3/6/26:] yups temenku juga keta
ketawa doang denger beginian (termasuk tim and employee lain) wkwkwk
(Yup, my friend also just laughed hearing this (including the team and
other employees), lol.)
[Threads post 3/4 — rweebs21 › Tech Threads]
meta.ai jelasin mengenai dugaan missleading dari Marchel Andrian Shevchenko
perkara credit Nvidia, btw kenapa si Marchel Namanya masih bersih padahal
udah di call out terdakwa tipikor ibrahim arief?? oh iya gk masuk
blacklist soalnya 😂😂😂 @chenko_07 @startupbandung @aiconnect.id
@indigo.telkom @garudaspark @bandungtechnopark @mit @laporkanrahmatwibowo
@achmadzaky
(meta.ai, explain the alleged misleading claims of Marchel Andrian
Shevchenko about Nvidia credits. By the way, why is Marchel's name still
clean even though he has been called out, corruption defendant Ibrahim
Arief?? Oh right, because he's not on the blacklist 😂😂😂)
[Attached: two videos, a Mahabharata clip and then the AI poster
"BOWOBHARATA — IBRAHIM ARIEF" of Ibrahim Arief as a bloodied warrior
under an "AWS" banner, "Bukan jenius. Bukan prodigy. Hanya seseorang yang
terlalu tinggi menilai dirinya sendiri." ("Not a genius. Not a prodigy.
Just someone who thinks too highly of himself."), with the October 2023
posts by HRD BACOT, Eza Hazami and Ibrahim Arief about his dismissal from
AWS, and chat messages]
[Threads post 4/4 — rweebs21 › Tech Threads]
meta.ai jelasin mengenai dugaan missleading dari Marchel Andrian Shevchenko
perkara Aruta App yang kena domain takeover jadi situs judol 😂😂😂
@chenko_07 @startupbandung @aiconnect.id @indigo.telkom @garudaspark
@bandungtechnopark @mit @laporkanrahmatwibowo @achmadzaky
(meta.ai, explain the alleged misleading claims of Marchel Andrian
Shevchenko about the Aruta app whose domain was taken over and turned into
an online gambling site 😂😂😂)
[Attached: a screenshot of an X post by dogfiles (@0xrsydn), 3:45 PM ·
3/6/26:]
gw quick check website startupnya arutala juga broken begini, bio ignya
juga soon 2025 padahal udah mei 2026
(I quickly checked his startup Arutala's website, and it's broken like
this too; its Instagram bio also says "soon 2025" even though it's
already May 2026.)
[The Instagram profile of arutala.app: "Arutala Aksara — 31 posts, 432
followers, 17 following — AI untuk belajar & melestarikan Aksara
Nusantara — Soon 2025⏳ — 'Menulis Aksara, Merangkai Budaya'"]