Letter of Demand No. 018/SOMASI/RW/VIII/2026: Maria Khelli (English Edition)

This post summarises Somasi No. 018/SOMASI/RW/VIII/2026, a formal legal notice I sent on 28 August 2026 to Ms. Maria Khelli, holder of the X account @khelli2002, who works in Singapore. The letter was issued in Indonesian with an English translation. It is a demand letter, not a police report, court filing or finding. She has not responded here, and I do not assert that she is guilty of any offence.

What the letter is about

Ms. Khelli is an Indonesian citizen and an alumna of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Copies went to the ITB alumni association (IA-ITB) and to TikTok Pte. Ltd. in Singapore, because her public professional profile lists her as a software engineer there.

My letter describes three things:

1. Participation in a 2023 campaign. I say she is recorded as one of the parties in a coordinated cyber-attack against me by dozens of classmates since October 2023. The letter refers to a separate case file for that context and does not repeat the details.
2. A reply on 9 July 2025. Under a post by another account that compared me to the "Monkey King" sealed for 500 years and cast me as "hunting," she replied, in my English rendering: "This is going to be lore for the next cohort XD. How lucky I am to witness it" (about 291 views). In my reading, this turns my suffering into "lore" for future cohorts' entertainment and shows she enjoyed watching it, thereby reinforcing the attack.
3. Blocking. I say that she, with other classmates, blocked my account as part of a coordinated ostracism, which deepened my isolation. I know of this from a "blocked you" list I captured.

I also state that she reinforced another person's post in the same thread, and that her involvement in 2023 and again in 2025 shows repetition. Those are my characterisations.

I was candid in the letter about a limit: because her tweet reads as reinforcement or sarcasm rather than a specific factual accusation, the "cannot be proven and contrary to what is known" element of slander (Art. 434) is not fully made out against her. I used Art. 434 only as a normative marker for her, with Art. 433, Art. 441 and Art. 27A of the ITE Law as the primary bases.

Harm I described

Reputational damage, an acute mental-health crisis including a bipolar disorder diagnosis, about 1.5 years of social isolation, and roughly two years of recovery.

Legal basis I relied on

I wrote the letter myself, without a lawyer. For Indonesia it cites Art. 433(2) (written defamation) with Art. 441(1) of the new Criminal Code, Art. 27A jo. Art. 45(4) of the 2024 ITE Law, and Civil Code Arts. 1365, 1366, 1372 and 1373, with joint and several liability alongside others. It includes an element table and a state-of-mind analysis, and concludes there is no public-interest or self-defence justification.

The cross-border angle: Indonesia and Singapore

Because she lives in Singapore, the letter also cites Singapore's Protection from Harassment Act 2014 (POHA): Section 4 (harassment, alarm or distress), Section 7 (unlawful stalking), Sections 11–15 (civil remedies and protection orders), and Section 17 (extraterritorial application), plus Penal Code s500 and the Defamation Act 1957. It notes that Indonesia and Singapore have an extradition treaty (signed in Bintan on 25 April 2022, ratified by Law No. 5 of 2023) that covers offences punishable by at least two years, and an ASEAN mutual legal assistance treaty. I described these as available mechanisms and not as predictions; I did not claim that her conduct would meet the treaty's threshold.

What I demanded

By Monday, 31 August 2026, 17:00 WIB, I asked her to:

1. Remove all tweets and content that attack or belittle me, including the 9 July 2025 tweet, unblock my account, and show proof;
2. Cease all cyber-attack, stalking and negative narratives, with a written undertaking;
3. Publish an open apology on her public account for at least 30 days;
4. Pay IDR 1,500,000,000 in non-pecuniary compensation, twice the IDR 750,000,000 maximum fine under Art. 45(6) of the 2024 ITE Law.

I offered coordination by email. If she did not comply, I stated I would file criminal reports in Indonesia, pursue mutual legal assistance or extradition, sue for an unlawful act, pursue parallel remedies under Singapore law including a Protection Order, and publish the notice with its evidence.

Limits of this record

• This is my account and my legal reading; no court or authority has made a finding.
• The 2023 participation is described only by reference to a separate case file, and is not detailed here.
• The compensation figure is a demand, not an assessed loss.
• I am not a lawyer, and this post is not legal advice.

Right of reply and correction

Ms. Maria Khelli is invited to respond, correct, or add context. A substantive reply may be published alongside this article, edited only for privacy, safety and relevance. If reliable evidence shows any statement here is wrong, I will correct it and note the change.

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