Legal Notice No. 072/SOMASI/RW/IX/2026: Two Bank Indonesia Employees (English Edition)
This post summarises Somasi No. 072/SOMASI/RW/IX/2026, a formal legal notice I sent on 24 September 2026 to Mr. Andres Jerriel Sinabutar (X account @programmermu) and Mr. Andija Rahman Dzikra (X account @andijard), each in a personal capacity, with a notification to their employer, Bank Indonesia. The letter was issued in Indonesian. It is a legal notice, not a police report, court filing or finding. Neither person has responded here, and I do not assert that either is guilty of any offence.
The limit I stated at the start
The letter opens with an admission that shapes everything else: my evidence shows that both men took part in a conversation that attacked me, but it does not show any text that either of them wrote. For that reason I described the letter as mainly a request for written clarification rather than an accusation, and I did not rely on defamation of the written kind against them.
What the letter is about
It sits inside a longer story. In September 2023 I was dismissed from a probationary role as an Associate Solutions Architect, which became a topic on social media, and accounts I knew as classmates and peers repeated and answered narratives that belittled me. I describe those accounts in separate notices to people whose own writing I can prove.
- Mr. Sinabutar (@programmermu). On 30 November 2023 the account @lahkokdeadline replied to him with "Nice, you all got him to make a new account", attaching a screenshot of my new Instagram profile. I read the reply, which is addressed to his account and says "you all", as showing he belonged to a group that watched my new account with cynicism (Evidence E-1). I also identified him earlier in my own records as a participant in the wider pile-on. The letter links the account to his name through those records, and notes that his public profile lists Bank Indonesia and Bandung Institute of Technology.
- Mr. Dzikra (@andijard). On 26 September 2023 the account @kadalsantolo replied to a conversation that included @andijard and another account with "Why wasn't I in the same high school as you all?", and on 12 April 2026 another account responded to the same conversation with "hehehehee" (Evidence E-2). A screenshot of the "Replying to" panel shows @andijard among the participants in that conversation (Evidence E-3). The letter says plainly that those words and the laughter were written by other accounts, not by him, and that what I can show is his presence in the conversation.
Harm I described
Damage to my reputation among friends and professional circles, real and continuing psychological harm including social isolation, and a loss of trust in my circle of friends and my alma mater.
Legal basis I relied on
I wrote the letter myself, without a lawyer. It cites Art. 433 with Art. 441(1) and Art. 20(c) of the new Criminal Code on taking part in written defamation by electronic means, with Art. 21 (assisting) as an alternative, and Civil Code Arts. 1365, 1372 and 1373. It applies the transition rule in Art. 3(1) of the Criminal Code to the 2023 events and notes that defamation is prosecuted only on the victim's complaint.
The letter says, in its own element tables, that the "taking part" element is only partly shown and that the state of mind of both men cannot yet be concluded, because being present in a conversation and not objecting does not necessarily prove an intent to join an attack. It does not rely on Art. 434 (slander) against them. It also explains why it does not rely on Civil Code Art. 1367(3) against their employer: their conduct was on personal accounts and mostly before or outside their employment.
Notice to the employer
The letter was also addressed to Bank Indonesia as the workplace of both men. I described that part as a notification and a request for a review under its employee code of conduct, and not as a claim against the bank.
Limits of this record
- This is my account and my legal reading; no authority has made a finding.
- The evidence shows involvement in a conversation, not authorship. The remarks quoted above were written by other accounts.
- Linking each account to a named person rests on my own records and their public professional profiles, and is untested.
- Whether being addressed in, or listed in, a thread amounts to taking part in an offence is doubtful on these facts, which the letter itself says.
- The 2023 events predate the new Criminal Code, so transition rules matter and are for a court to apply.
- I am not a lawyer, and this post is not legal advice.
Right of reply and correction
Mr. Andres Jerriel Sinabutar and Mr. Andija Rahman Dzikra are invited to respond, correct, or add context, including to state that an account is not theirs. 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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