Legal Notice No. 050/SOMASI/RW/IX/2026: MrScraper, Google, Amazon and Shopee (English + Bahasa Indonesia)
Bilingual edition (English and Bahasa Indonesia). Somasi No. 050/SOMASI/RW/IX/2026 is a formal legal notice I sent on 1 September 2026 to MrScraper (operated in Indonesia by PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia), with Google, Amazon and Shopee also named as recipients. The original letter has an English part and an Indonesian part. It uses the words "alleged" and "to my knowledge" for several points, and so do I. It is not a court finding, and no recipient has responded in this post.
Edisi dwibahasa (Inggris dan Bahasa Indonesia). Somasi No. 050/SOMASI/RW/IX/2026 adalah surat peringatan hukum yang saya kirim pada 1 September 2026 kepada MrScraper (dijalankan di Indonesia oleh PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia), dengan Google, Amazon, dan Shopee juga sebagai penerima. Surat aslinya memiliki bagian bahasa Inggris dan bahasa Indonesia. Ini bukan putusan pengadilan.
English
The parties
- MrScraper / PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia: a web-scraping business marketed at mrscraper.com under the slogan "Scrape web data … Get clean, structured data from any website at any scale." Its President Director is Mr. Cahyo Subroto. The public website is hosted outside Indonesia and lists a Delaware, USA address.
- Google, Amazon and Shopee: owners of marks and logos that MrScraper displays in a catalogue of about 90 scraper templates, and, as I note, also the apparent identities used by third-party forum accounts that attacked me.
- Me: engaged by PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia as an "AI Engineer" from 8 August 2025 to 8 November 2025 at IDR 12,000,000 a month. I state that I disclosed my diagnosed psychosocial disability (bipolar disorder) to Mr. Subroto in the interview, before signing.
What the letter complains about
1. An allegedly discriminatory employment agreement (July–August 2025). After my disclosure, the agreement I signed (No. PK/052/HR-MRS/VII/2025) allegedly contained clauses I read as discriminating on health or disability grounds: Art. VIII(b) and (c) allowing termination if the worker has an illness or condition "not previously known," defined by the company alone; Art. X(3) making "health condition" part of periodic evaluation; Art. VI(7), a purported waiver of any rights beyond the contract; and an attendance and sick-leave regime with no reasonable-accommodation mechanism. I cite Law No. 8 of 2016 on Persons with Disabilities (including Arts. 143 and 145 on obstructing the right to work), and the Manpower Law.
2. An allegedly unlawful scraping operation. I argue that MrScraper markets, at scale, tools targeting named third-party platforms (among them Amazon, Shopee, Google Maps, eBay, AliExpress, Lazada and others), reproduces their logos as thumbnails beside the claim "trusted by the world's leading companies," and, to my knowledge, holds no copyright or licence for those logos and is not registered as an Electronic System Operator (PSE) with the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs. I also raise, as a possibility for the platforms to test with their own server data, disruption from high-volume automated requests. I have no server-side evidence of that; the letter says that only the platforms hold it.
3. Defamation through accounts using corporate names (2023 and 2026). In two separate periods (September–November 2023 and May–June 2026), forum accounts displaying the names and logos of Google, Amazon and Shopee posted attacks on me. Examples in the letter include a "Google" account telling me I "need serious help," a "Shopee" account saying my "career is already certainly ruined" and another urging others to "gang up," and "Amazon" accounts asking if I was "still alive" and wishing I would "go to prison." Whether those accounts belong to the companies or are impersonations, I argue the companies owe a duty to act. I have not established who operates them.
Demands (deadline: Friday, 4 September 2026, 17:00 WIB)
To MrScraper / PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia and Mr. Cahyo Subroto:
- Revise the agreement to remove Arts. VIII(b), VIII(c), X(3) and VI(7) and add a reasonable-accommodation clause, with a stamped statement that my disclosed disability will not be used against me;
- Cease the scraping operation in and targeting Indonesia until it registers as a PSE, evidences authorisation for each third-party target, and removes the roughly 90 third-party names and logos and the "trusted by" claim pending rights verification;
- Disclose its full legal identity (corporate form, deed, business licence, registered office, data-processing basis, content controller);
- Confirm in writing that it holds no registered copyright in the logo artwork and no licence to the marks;
- Pay IDR 1,500,000,000 in immaterial compensation (twice the IDR 750,000,000 maximum fine under Art. 45B of the ITE Law);
- Cooperate with any inquiry by the platforms, ministries and police.
To Google, Amazon and Shopee (three days for a position statement, fourteen for investigation): confirm or disown the accounts using their names and logos; investigate and, if confirmed, report MrScraper to the police and the intellectual-property office; issue takedown or cease-and-desist notices; and report back to me. I reserved the right to name a company in a criminal complaint on a theory of corporate liability for deliberate tolerance (Arts. 45–50 of the new Criminal Code) only if, after formal notice, it knowingly failed to act. That is a reservation, not an accusation.
If not complied with
I stated I would file criminal complaints (defamation through corporate-identity accounts, disability-rights, trademark, copyright, ITE and data-protection provisions), a civil suit for unlawful acts, administrative complaints to the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (including a request to block mrscraper.com), the intellectual-property office, manpower authorities and the National Commission on Disability, and US filings coordinated with rights holders, and publish the notice with its exhibits.
Bahasa Indonesia
Ringkasan
Surat ini ditujukan kepada MrScraper / PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia (Direktur Utama Cahyo Subroto), dengan Google, Amazon, dan Shopee sebagai penerima lainnya. Saya dipekerjakan sebagai "AI Engineer" pada 8 Agustus–8 November 2025 dengan nilai jasa Rp12.000.000 per bulan, dan saya menyatakan telah mengungkapkan disabilitas psikososial (gangguan bipolar) saya saat wawancara, sebelum menandatangani perjanjian kerja.
Pokok keberatan saya:
- Perjanjian kerja yang diduga diskriminatif (Nomor PK/052/HR-MRS/VII/2025): Pasal VIII(b) dan (c), Pasal X(3), Pasal VI(7), dan rezim absensi dan cuti sakit tanpa mekanisme akomodasi yang layak. Rujukan saya adalah UU No. 8 Tahun 2016 tentang Penyandang Disabilitas (termasuk Pasal 143 dan 145) dan UU Ketenagakerjaan.
- Operasi web scraping yang diduga melawan hukum: katalog sekitar 90 templat scraper yang menampilkan merek dan logo pihak lain, klaim "trusted by the world's leading companies," dan, sepanjang pengetahuan saya, tidak adanya hak cipta atau lisensi atas logo tersebut serta tidak terdaftarnya sebagai Penyelenggara Sistem Elektronik (PSE). Dugaan gangguan server hanya dapat dibuktikan oleh data lalu lintas server milik platform.
- Pencemaran nama baik lewat akun berlogo perusahaan (September–November 2023 dan Mei–Juni 2026): akun-akun berlogo Google, Amazon, dan Shopee menyerang saya di forum publik. Saya belum dapat memastikan siapa pengelolanya, dan terlepas dari apakah akun tersebut milik perusahaan atau peniruan identitas, saya berpendapat perusahaan berkewajiban bertindak.
Tuntutan (tenggat: Jumat, 4 September 2026, pukul 17.00 WIB)
Kepada MrScraper dan Sdr. Cahyo Subroto: merevisi perjanjian kerja dan menambahkan klausul akomodasi yang layak; menghentikan operasi scraping sampai terdaftar sebagai PSE dan memiliki dasar hukum atas setiap target; membuka identitas hukum lengkap; menyatakan tertulis tidak memiliki hak cipta atas logo dan lisensi atas merek yang ditampilkan; membayar ganti rugi immateriil Rp1.500.000.000 (dua kali denda maksimum Pasal 45B UU ITE); dan bekerja sama dalam setiap pemeriksaan.
Kepada Google, Amazon, dan Shopee (tiga hari untuk pernyataan sikap, empat belas hari untuk investigasi): menegaskan atau menyangkal akun-akun tersebut; menyelidiki dan, jika terbukti, melaporkan MrScraper kepada kepolisian dan DJKI; menerbitkan somasi atau permintaan penghapusan; dan melaporkan hasilnya kepada saya. Saya mencadangkan hak untuk menyebut perusahaan dalam laporan pidana atas dasar pertanggungjawaban korporasi karena pembiaran (Pasal 45–50 KUHP) hanya jika, setelah diberi tahu secara resmi, perusahaan sengaja tidak bertindak.
Jika tidak dipenuhi: laporan pidana, gugatan perdata perbuatan melawan hukum, pengaduan administratif (Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital, DJKI, instansi ketenagakerjaan, Komisi Nasional Disabilitas), pengajuan di Amerika Serikat, dan publikasi somasi beserta buktinya.
Annex images | Lampiran gambar
The annex has 16 exhibits: the mrscraper.com pages and template catalogue, logos displayed, hosting information, the employment agreement, and screenshots of the forum accounts. Images follow the annex order. Lampiran memuat 16 bukti dan gambar berikut mengikuti urutan lampiran.
Limits of this record | Batasan catatan ini
- This is my account and my legal reading; no court or authority has made a finding. Ini adalah catatan dan pendapat hukum saya; belum ada putusan pengadilan atau instansi.
- The legal status of MrScraper's operations, and the ownership of the forum accounts, are not established. Status hukum operasi MrScraper dan kepemilikan akun-akun forum belum terbukti.
- The compensation figure is a demand, not an assessed loss. Nilai ganti rugi adalah tuntutan, bukan kerugian yang sudah dinilai.
- I am not a lawyer, and this post is not legal advice. Saya bukan advokat, dan tulisan ini bukan nasihat hukum.
Right of reply | Hak jawab
MrScraper, PT Pena Teknologi Indonesia, Mr. Cahyo Subroto, Google, Amazon and Shopee are each invited to respond, correct, or add context; a substantive reply may be published alongside this article. Para pihak di atas dipersilakan memberikan jawaban, koreksi, atau konteks tambahan, yang dapat dipublikasikan bersama tulisan ini.
See also Rahmat Wibowo vs. MrScraper.
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