Rahmat Wibowo, disclosing he is Marchel Shevchenko's competitor, titled a video asking whether Marchel's Arutala Aksara had 'become a gambling site', though his own Whois check showed the domain had been taken over by someone else

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Rahmat Wibowo, disclosing he is Marchel Shevchenko's competitor, titled a video asking whether Marchel's Arutala Aksara had 'become a gambling site', though his own Whois check showed the domain had been taken over by someone else

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He published it on YouTube on 5 November 2026. Minute links open the video at that point.

  • “I’m Shevchenko’s competitor.” He opens by disclosing that he is Marchel Shevchenko’s competitor and is “annoyed” with him, then repeats that Marchel claims “an MIT PhD when he hasn’t even finished his bachelor’s” (minute 0). Pulling up Marchel’s pages, he tells him to finish his degree: “You started in 2020, you should have graduated already, you joke” (minute 2).
  • A title his own check contradicts. He opens arutalaaksara.com, the address of Marchel’s Javanese-script project, finds it showing gambling (“judol”) content and calls on the communications ministry (minute 2–3). After failing to load Wayback Machine captures, he checks Whois and says the domain was “taken over by someone else” in May (minute 5). Yet he still asks “how could it become a gambling site” (minute 7), and the title asks whether Arutala Aksara “became a gambling site”, tying Marchel’s project to online gambling.
  • One of three videos in two days. This follows two videos on 4 November reading old X posts about Marchel’s credentials. Days later he called himself Marchel’s “enemy, perhaps as a business competitor”.

Transcript

[YouTube video, "Arutala Aksara dari Data Sorcerers Marchel Andrian Shevchenko Jadi Situs Judol??", 5 November 2026, 8 minutes. Excerpts from YouTube's automatic captions.] [0:00] Ini saya disclose ada saya saingannya Shevchenko, tapi saya kesel sama Shevchenko. ... Emang ini ngaku-ngaku mulu, ngaku-ngaku S3 MIT, padahal S1 belum lulus. (I'm disclosing that I'm Shevchenko's competitor, but I'm annoyed with Shevchenko. ... He keeps making claims, claiming an MIT PhD when he hasn't even finished his bachelor's.) [2:00] Lu kerja, lu mendingan selesaiin dulu kuliah lu ... Lu tahun 2020 masuk, itu lu harusnya udah lulus, kocak. Udah 5 tahun, sekarang tuh udah 6 tahun, Bro. (Working? You'd better finish your degree first ... You started in 2020, you should have graduated already, you joke. It's been 5 years, now it's 6 years, bro.) [5:00] Terus pas gua cek di Whois ya, arutalaaksara.com itu nah ini dia, dia baru nah 5 Mei nih. 5 Mei dia ke-take over bro, 2 Mei. Domain take over sama orang lain. (Then when I checked Whois, arutalaaksara.com, here it is, just on 5 May. On 5 May it was taken over, bro, 2 May. The domain was taken over by someone else.) [7:00] Sudahlah, sebenarnya bagus ya, cuma kayak ente ente enggak benar, masa jadi judol, Bro. (Come on, it's actually good, but you're not doing it right. How could it become a gambling site, bro.)