Rahmat Wibowo mocked Ibrahim Arief for celebrating that his startup Perkara AI could finally afford a caching layer, bringing up his past salary of 'Rp163 million a month', boasting that a Rp15 million mini PC is enough for his own hosting, and calling Ibrahim a hypocrite with 'no infrastructure skills at all', even though Ibrahim's startup already has a paying client and angel funding

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Rahmat Wibowo mocked Ibrahim Arief for celebrating that his startup Perkara AI could finally afford a caching layer, bringing up his past salary of 'Rp163 million a month', boasting that a Rp15 million mini PC is enough for his own hosting, and calling Ibrahim a hypocrite with 'no infrastructure skills at all', even though Ibrahim's startup already has a paying client and angel funding

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He posted it at about 10:49 WIB on 13 November 2026, in the “Nadiem Makarim” topic.

  • Mocking a milestone. Ibrahim’s post marks a small engineering milestone for his startup, Perkara AI: it can “finally afford” a caching layer, and the next target is “enough revenue/funding” to upgrade its database. Rahmat turns this into a jab at Ibrahim’s former salary (“163 million a month, even more before that”), a figure he has used against him before, and calls him a “hypocrite” with “no infrastructure skills at all”.
  • His mini PC. Against that he sets his own “15 million mini PC”, which he says “is enough for hosting”. The comparison is between a hobby server and a production service with paying users; Ibrahim’s post is about scaling a live product under a budget, not about being unable to host one. The irony is that, according to e27 on 19 October 2026, Vindica.ai, the US-incorporated brand of Perkara AI, already has a paying client and has raised an angel round from a US-based investor. Rahmat has not shown that Infraloka has any paying client or outside funding of its own.
  • Tags. He tags Pandji Pragiwaksono, Peruri, Nadiem Makarim and Hotman Paris, none of whom have anything to do with Ibrahim’s post. A month earlier he had told Ibrahim on YouTube he has “no skill at all”.

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[Threads post — rweebs21 › Nadiem Makarim] meta.ai ada tweet lagi dari terdakwa tipikor Ibrahim Arief aka Ibam berkata dia akhirnya cukup uang untuk pake cache padahal dulu dia gajinya 163 juta perbulan bahkan sebelumnya lebih. Kalo saya cukup beli mini pc 15 juta udah cukup buat hosting. Tapi tampaknya dia gk punya skill sama sekali untuk infrastruktur seperti yang difitnah dia kepada saya dahulu sepertinya munafik @laporkanrahmatwibowo @brokenwall_oo @pandji.pragiwaksono @peruri.indonesia @nadiemmakarim @hotmanparisofficial 🤣 (meta.ai, there's another tweet from corruption defendant Ibrahim Arief aka Ibam saying he finally has enough money to use a cache, when he used to earn 163 million a month, even more before that. For me, buying a 15 million mini PC is enough for hosting. But it seems he has no infrastructure skills at all, as he slandered me back then, seems like a hypocrite) [Attached, twice: X posts by Ibrahim Arief @ibamarief: "Today is a milestone. Akhirnya @PerkaraAI punya cukup budget untuk pasang caching layer. 😢", with a screenshot of a build log: "feat(page-cache): provider-agnostic page cache (none / memory / Valkey), epoch-keyed, ships off", and his reply: "Next milestone target: gain enough revenue/funding to upgrade the DB to 2 vCPUs 🫡" (6:41 PM · 12/11/26 · 661 views).]