Buat yang MALAS MEMBACA tapi BUKAN PARJO PARCOK. Saya bantu translasi article the Economist biar ga IKUTAN DUNGU teriak antek asing dan "semua akan hilang ketika IHSG bullish":
"Presiden Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, pernah menyaksikan negaranya hancur sebelumnya. Itu terjadi pada tahun 1998, saat krisis keuangan Asia. Kala itu, runtuhnya ekonomi memicu protes massa dan tumbangnya bapak mertua Pak Prabowo, Suharto, seorang diktator yang terkenal korup. Peristiwa itu juga melemparkan Pak Prabowo, yang sempat berharap bisa menggantikan Suharto, ke dalam pengasingan politik. Butuh waktu seperempat abad baginya untuk merangkak kembali, hingga akhirnya berhasil meraih kursi nomor satu pada tahun 2024.
Jadi, Anda mungkin berpikir dia akan sangat berhati-hati terhadap krisis fiskal lainnya: Anda salah.
Pemimpin negara dengan mayoritas Muslim terbesar di dunia ini telah memusatkan kekuasaan dan mengelilingi dirinya dengan sekelompok penjilat. Dia mendepak menteri keuangan yang dihormati dan menggantinya dengan Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, yang pernah menyebut IMF "bodoh" dan mengatakan kepada The Economist pada bulan April bahwa presiden tidak perlu khawatir tentang "perkembangan ekonomi global [atau] harga minyak dunia". Para pelaku bisnis di Indonesia takut untuk bersuara, mungkin karena Pak Prabowo adalah mantan jenderal antikritik dengan rekam jejak hak asasi manusia yang dipertanyakan, atau mungkin karena belakangan ini dia kerap mengintimidasi bisnis-bisnis besar.
Pak Prabowo tampaknya mengisolasi diri dari kenyataan. Jadi, dia mungkin tidak akan mendengarkan nasihat yang masuk akal. Namun, inilah beberapa masukan untuknya. Proyek-proyek kesayangannya tidak terjangkau. Sebelum perang Iran, menghabiskan proyeksi 10% dari anggaran hanya untuk dua proyek saja—makan siang gratis di sekolah dan jaringan 80.000 koperasi desa—hanya sekadar pemborosan. Sekarang, krisis energi telah menghapus semua ruang untuk melakukan kesalahan. Pak Prabowo harus mengubah arah atau menghadapi risiko krisis.
Dia harus memotong pengeluaran untuk proyek-proyek kesayangannya, atau memangkas subsidi bahan bakar fosil Indonesia yang sangat besar, atau melanggar undang-undang yang membatasi defisit anggaran sebesar 3% dari PDB. Setiap pilihan memiliki risiko. Memangkas proyek mubazirnya akan membuatnya tampak lemah. Membiarkan harga energi naik akan mengundang kerusuhan. Jadi, Pak Prabowo mungkin akan mengambil jalan ketiga: membiarkan defisit menembus batas hukumnya.
Itu akan menjadi sebuah kesalahan. Memang benar, batas 3% adalah angka sewenang-wenang yang disalin-tempel dari Perjanjian Maastricht Eropa. Namun sejak krisis 1998, angka itu telah menjadi sinyal bahwa pemerintah Indonesia serius menjaga disiplin fiskal. Sekarang para investor mulai cemas. Pembayaran bunga sebagai bagian dari pendapatan pemerintah melonjak tajam. Lembaga pemeringkat kredit sedang bersiap untuk menurunkan peringkat. Di bawah kepemimpinan Pak Prabowo, modal asing senilai $6 miliar telah keluar dan rupiah telah melemah sebesar 11% terhadap dolar ke rekor terendah. Menjebol batas anggaran akan mendorong biaya pinjaman menjadi lebih tinggi.
Bahkan saat dia membuat ekonomi menjadi lebih genting, Pak Prabowo juga mengikis demokrasi Indonesia. Oposisi legislatif hampir sepenuhnya dilumpuhkan, dan proposal untuk mengakhiri pemilihan langsung gubernur provinsi bukan merupakan pertanda baik. Masyarakat sipil diintimidasi. Ruang untuk berbeda pendapat sangat sedikit, dan jika ada, minim pergulatan kreatif antar-gagasan yang saling bersaing. Terlalu banyak hal yang bergantung pada naluri seorang mantan tentara tunggal yang mendapat saran buruk.
Dia perlu mendengar kebenaran yang pahit. Ya, bahan bakar murah memang populer. Namun hal itu mendorong konsumsi di tengah situasi kelangkaan. Ya, orang-orang menyukai makan siang gratis di sekolah. Namun memberikannya kepada semua orang adalah pemborosan. Lebih bijaksana untuk fokus pada ibu hamil dan balita dari keluarga miskin, yang membutuhkan nutrisi lebih baik guna mencegah stunting (tengkes). Ya, petani Indonesia kerap diperas oleh tengkulak saat membeli pupuk. Namun ada cara yang lebih murah untuk mengatasi hal ini ketimbang membangun 80.000 koperasi desa, yang kemungkinan besar justru rentan korupsi. Dan ya, batas defisit 3% bisa saja dinaikkan suatu hari nanti. Namun pertama-tama, Pak Prabowo harus meyakinkan pasar bahwa keuangan Indonesia berada di tangan yang aman.
Persimpangan jalan baru
Indonesia telah membuat kemajuan besar dalam seperempat abad terakhir. Di bawah serangkaian pemerintahan yang cukup pragmatis, pendapatan per kapita telah meningkat lebih dari dua kali lapor dan demokrasi mulai berakar. Pak Prabowo bukanlah penguasa kleptokratis seperti mendiang bapak mertuanya, tetapi dia sedang mengikis kemajuan yang telah dicapai negaranya sejak masa-masa kelam dulu.
Presiden harus berhenti mencoba membungkam oposisi di legislatif, media, dan masyarakat sipil. Perbedaan pendapat yang tidak menemukan saluran dalam politik akan tumpah ke jalanan, seperti yang terjadi dalam kerusuhan tahun lalu. Bersikeras bahwa oposisi harus "sopan" adalah resep yang suatu hari nanti justru bisa mengubahnya menjadi kekerasan.
Masih ada harapan. Pak Prabowo peduli dengan warisan kepemimpinannya. Jadi, dia perlu menyadari bahwa negara kepulauan yang sangat besar, luas, dan multi-etnis seperti Indonesia tidak bisa begitu saja diberi perintah layaknya sebuah unit tentara. Indonesia membutuhkan seorang panglima tertinggi yang mendengarkan banyak suara, bukan yang mengelilingi dirinya dengan orang-orang yang hanya bisa berkata "ya""
Ini Ibam, bicara sendiri agar Ririe terlindungi.
Betul, ketika belum jadi tersangka, saya dapat ancaman: buat pernyataan "mengarah ke atas" kalau tidak kasusnya "akan diperluas".
Saya tolak, ngga mau bohong & zalim.
Tiga minggu kemudian, saya jadi tersangka.
Saya tolak bukan untuk lindungi Nadiem, tapi karena memang ngga pernah ada arahan dari Nadiem ke saya agar pengadaannya jadi Chromebook semua.
Seperti yang terungkap dari 22x sidang, tidak ada sama sekali arahan dari atas seperti itu. Saya hanya diminta memberi masukan netral dan objektif sebagai konsultan.
Artinya, ketika menerima ancaman tersebut saya dihadapkan ke dua pilihan:
Berbohong mengarang cerita menuduh orang lain untuk menyelamatkan diri sendiri.
Atau, berpegang kepada integritas, kejujuran, dan kebenaran yang saya yakini, dan menolak untuk berbohong.
Dengan shalat istikharah dan kesadaran penuh akan risikonya, saya memilih jalan yang kedua: kejujuran.
Insya Allah selalu berpegang pada kejujuran akan berujung pada kebaikan untuk saya, Ririe, dan keluarga kecil kami. Kalau tidak di dunia, maka di akhirat kelak.
Lalu jawabannya apa ketika saya menolak untuk berbohong? "Oke, kami perluas.”
Saya tidak berdaya. Ya Allah, apa lagi yang bisa kami lakukan ketika dihadapkan pada pilihan seperti itu? Pegangan kami hanya prinsip integritas dan kejujuran.
Ketika konsekuensinya beberapa minggu kemudian saya dinyatakan tersangka, kami hanya bisa memperbanyak istighfar dan ikhtiar.
Kami jalani dan hormati proses hukum yang ada dengan tabah, kami berniat jelaskan di persidangan fakta-fakta yang membuat terang, kami masih percaya dengan hukum Indonesia.
Mungkin ngga banyak yang tahu, tapi Ririe istri saya adalah seorang sarjana dan magister hukum. Di Belanda dulu kami banting tulang nabung dan berhemat banyak, supaya bisa bayar uang kuliah S2 Ririe.
Dari Ririe, saya belajar banyak tentang hukum Indonesia, apa saja yang mungkin terjadi, dan bagaimana hukum kita tetap memungkinkan pembelaan yang efektif.
Baik, mari berjuang di persidangan, luruskan seluruh tuduhan. Satu persatu fakta di persidangan muncul dengan terang benderang, satu persatu tuduhan bisa kami bantah.
Sampai akhir rangkaian sidang, 57 orang saksi dihadirkan, tidak ada bukti saya menerima keuntungan dari perkara ini, tidak ada bukti masukan saya karena konflik kepentingan, tidak ada bukti saya mengarahkan.
Yang terungkap malah saya sebagai konsultan sudah menyarankan Chromebook diuji dulu, pejabat menolak pengujian dan memutus Chromebook, nama saya dicatut di SK, masukan saya dipelintir.
Kami merasa pembelaan hukum kami sudah maksimal, kebenaran sudah terungkap, tinggal menumpu harapan pada keadilan dan kebijaksanaan dari majelis hakim yang mulia, yang kami merasa sudah sangat objektif dan penuh kearifan sepanjang persidangan.
Namun, ketika JPU menyebutkan tuntutan 15 tahun penjara, denda Rp1 miliar, uang pengganti Rp16,9 miliar subsider 7,5 tahun penjara tambahan...
Ini titik kezaliman yang sangat terang benderang, tekanan kepentingan yang sangat kentara, saya memutuskan pembelaan saya tidak lagi bisa hanya di persidangan.
Besok saya akan sidang pembelaan (pleidoi) dan kami bersurat kepada Presiden @prabowo Subianto serta @KomisiIII DPR, untuk memohon perlindungan hukum dari kriminalisasi, ketidakadilan, intimidasi, serta pengkambinghitaman yang sudah sekentara ini.
Kami takut untuk bicara? Takut ada intimidasi lain? Itu risiko yang jelas, tapi kami tidak gentar. Tuntutan 22,5 tahun dan belasan miliar yang tidak mampu kami bayar mungkin dianggap akan membuat kami terdiam, tapi kami malah semakin berani untuk melawan kriminalisasi ini.
Mohon bantuan, dukungan, dan perlindungannya dari masyarakat Indonesia, dari pekerja kreatif dan pekerja pengetahuan, serta dari semua yang ingin bantu negara atau takut dizalimi negara.
Kami berjuang bukan untuk kami sendiri, tapi agar tidak ada lagi kriminalisasi dan ketakutan bagi mereka yang tulus mau bantu Indonesia. Kami masih percaya Indonesia bisa menjaga dan menghadirkan keadilan dalam kasus kami.
Mengapa Negara Menzalimi Suami Saya, yang Tulus Berkorban Banyak Untuk Negara?
Sebagai istri, sakit hati rasanya. Enam belas tahun aku kenal Ibam, dia ngga money oriented. Niatnya tulus. Kalau sudah mau bantu, dia akan benar-benar bantu.
Ibam dituntut penjara 15 tahun dan harus bayar Rp16,9 miliar, kalau tidak maka pidananya ditambah 7,5 tahun.
Berarti, Ibam dituntut 22,5 tahun penjara.
Ibam, yang pernah menolak tawaran puluhan miliar karena merasa misi bantu negara lewat bangun teknologi masih belum selesai.
Sekarang ironisnya dituduh korupsi. Padahal sampai 57 saksi diperiksa, tidak ada satu pun bukti Ibam memperkaya diri. Tidak ada konflik kepentingan untuk memperkaya orang lain.
Dia hanya konsultan teknis, rela tolak tawaran asing, turun gaji demi negara, ngga punya jabatan dan kewenangan, selalu profesional dan netral dalam kasih masukan, tapi terjebak dalam pusaran para elite birokrasi.
Masukan teknis Ibam yang sudah terdokumentasi baik, transparan akan kelebihan dan kekurangan, diceritakan sepotong-sepotong saja oleh pejabat pengadaan. Sehingga seakan-akan Ibam memaksa hanya Chromebook.
Untungnya, Ibam punya banyak dokumentasi yang sudah jadi bukti di persidangan. Sudah terungkap di sidang bahwa:
1. Ibam bukan pejabat, tapi konsultan yayasan. Gaji Ibam sama sekali bukan dari APBN.
2. Ibam baru kenal Nadiem setelah dia jadi menteri. Ngga ada persekongkolan, dan ngga pernah ketemu personal.
3. Di banyak bukti chat & notulen rapat: Ibam tidak mengarahkan pengadaan, tidak buat kajian, bahkan Ibam minta kementerian untuk uji Chromebook dulu.
4. Pejabat Eselon I akhirnya mengakui: dia yang menolak masukan pengujian Ibam, dia yang memutuskan Chromebook lewat SK yang dia keluarkan.
5. Ahli IT telah menyatakan masukan Ibam sudah netral dan profesional, sesuai best practice keahlian, serta benar dalam menyerahkan keputusan ke kementerian.
Puncaknya, nama Ibam dicatut ke dalam SK pengadaan yang tidak pernah dia ketahui sebelumnya. Dalam pengesahan kajian Chromebook yang ditugaskan SK, tidak ada tanda tangan Ibam.
Terungkap juga di sidang, belasan pejabat, termasuk yang berupaya ‘menyalahkan’ Ibam, mengakui telah menerima ratusan juta rupiah suap dari vendor. Namun mereka semua bebas, tidak ada yang jadi tersangka.
Disaat mereka bebas, Ibam ditahan dan dituntut penjara. Bagiku perkara ini jelas. Suamiku bukan pelaku, tapi korban permainan elite birokrasi yang seenaknya melempar semua keputusan mereka pada Ibam.
Sekarang, kami hampir sampai di ujung jalan.
Ibam dituntut 22,5 tahun penjara.
Dua terdakwa lain, pejabat Eselon II di Kemendikbud, yang mengatur pengadaan dan sudah mengakui ada aliran dana sampai miliaran rupiah, dituntut 6 tahun saja.
Semakin kontras ketika surat tuntutan sendiri mengakui: tidak ada aliran dana ke Ibam.
Tuntutan bilang di laporan SPT 2021, kekayaan Ibam naik Rp16,9 miliar. Ibam sudah tunjukkan bukti di persidangan kalau itu dari saham Bukalapak yang didapat jauh sebelum Ibam menjadi konsultan Kemendikbud, tidak ada kaitannya sama sekali dengan Chromebook atau Gojek.
Bukti itu ditolak JPU dalam tuntutannya. Mereka bilang karena Ibam sudah resign, sahamnya hangus. Mereka tidak paham kata-kata dalam surat pemberian saham, bahwa yang hangus hanya “saham yang belum diberikan”. Padahal, sebelum resign juga ada sebagian saham yang sudah diberikan.
JPU menyatakan, karena mereka tolak bukti itu, Rp16,9 miliar Ibam diduga hasil korupsi, jadi mereka tuntut 15 tahun ditambah 7,5 tahun.
Bagi kami, ini puncak dari kezaliman. Ibam yang tidak pernah, sekali lagi, TIDAK PERNAH ADA ALIRAN DANA SAMA SEKALI, dikriminalisasi atas prestasinya bantu negara, yang tidak ada hubungannya dengan perkara.
Dua minggu lagi putusan Ibam akan dibacakan oleh Majelis Hakim, kami tetap berharap keadilan putusan bisa sesuai dengan fakta persidangan.
Karena, ini bukan sekedar perkara hukum, ini menyangkut nasib seseorang, masa depan keluarga kami, anak-anak kami, serta kemerdekaan kami sekeluarga.
Setahun terakhir ini adalah masa yang sangat berat bagi kami. Keluarga kami kehilangan penghasilan, kesehatan jantung Ibam kian memburuk, bahkan tabungan hidup kami terkuras habis untuk biaya medis dan biaya hukum.
Namun, aku bersaksi bahwa Ibam adalah seorang perintis. Hidupnya penuh perjuangan dari kecil, insya Allah kami siap bangun dari nol lagi.
Hanya saja, jika pengabdian untuk Indonesia harus dibayar semahal ini. Jika bukti persidangan sudah seterang ini, dan jika upaya mengkambinghitamkan Ibam sudah sekentara ini, dia tetap dipenjara puluhan tahun...
Ini adalah ketidakadilan yang teramat pahit.
Bukan hanya bagi Ibam, tapi bagi siapa pun yang pernah atau akan bantu bangsa ini dengan niat tulus.
Apa memang berbakti bagi merah putih seberbahaya ini?
Apa memang tidak ada keadilan bagi orang jujur yang sudah berkorban banyak bagi negara?
Tolong bantu kami mencari keadilan untuk Ibam selagi masih ada waktu. Mohon bantu bagikan tulisan ini, pada rekan atau kerabat, konsultan atau pejabat, siapapun yang bisa bantu menyuarakan keadilan dan memberi perhatian.
Agar tidak ada lagi profesional seperti Ibam yang jadi korban kriminalisasi.
Jakarta, 16 April 2026
Ririe - Istri dari Ibrahim Arief (Ibam)
@havidkhanan Kalo beli ON 5 lbs (2.268kg) dengan harga 1.3 jutaan, jadi lumayan worth it.
1.3 juta / 2268 g = Rp 573 / g
Asumsi 1 scoop = 25 g, berarti harga per porsinya jadi ~ Rp 14.300.
Since last year, I've arguably been wrongfully accused in a state corruption case.
To defend my innocence, I spent past 6 weeks building an agentic AI swarm that:
Analyzed 4700+ pages court docs
Mapped 8900+ testimonies
Found dozens of contradictions
This is how I fight 👇🏼
First off, some context may be necessary.
Even though I'm accused in a state corruption case, I'm not a government official. I'm a software engineer. I spent over 15 years building large-scale tech systems across Europe and Indonesia. I've led engineering teams of up to 600 people and helped grow a small tech startup into a unicorn.
In 2016, I moved back from Europe to Indonesia, because I believe technology at scale could make a real difference to the millions of people in the nation.
Six years ago, working as a tech consultant under a nonprofit foundation, I started advising Indonesia's Ministry of Education on building large-scale technology platforms.
Public sector work pays significantly less than private sector, and I took close to a 50% pay cut to make the switch. I was fine with that. Using what I knew to help underserved communities in Indonesia felt like the right trade.
Our mission was to build a user-centric superapp for public education, specifically for teachers and public schools, the kind of work the private sector ignores because there's no money in it.
At some point, officials at the ministry asked for my input on one of their procurement plans. I helped them work through the technical details, shared what I knew, laid out the pros and cons, and recommended a set of tests they should run to determine which options were the most suitable.
By the time they made their final decision and executed the procurement, I had already resigned from the consulting work, so I didn't think much of it.
Fast forward to May 2025. My house was raided as part of a newly opened corruption investigation tied to that procurement. Two months later, I was named a suspect and placed under city detention due to my health.
The trial started in January 2026. We've been through more than a dozen sessions so far, and not a single piece of evidence or testimony has been presented showing I received a single cent from the procurement.
What came to light was the opposite: evidence and testimony that my recommendations were neutral and likely were ultimately ignored by the ministry's own team, who went ahead and made the call on their own.
So why am I the one on trial? Because the ministry officials who did take money from the procurement vendors needed someone to blame for the decisions they made. Blaming an outside consultant is the easy way out.
Witness testimonies in court has shown that the officials actively directed the procurement while claiming it was done on my instructions and even misled their own team within the ministry by saying I held a position of authority.
We needed evidence to dispute those accusations, questions to cross-examine the witnesses, and we needed them fast.
This is where my AI comes in.
A few days before the trial began, we received a 4400-page printed document containing all the witness statements collected during the investigation, plus several hundred pages of other related documents.
The information asymmetry is staggering. Those with deep enough pockets to hire large law firms can throw dozens of paralegals and associates at a document like that and mount a proper defense on short notice.
I didn't have that kind of money. By then, I had been out of work for more than six months. The AI startup I founded had to shut down. Our investors asked us to return their funding. I had to lay off the entire team.
Most of my lawyers are friends of my wife from her college days, who stepped up and waived most of their fees because they could see I was being railroaded.
The whole situation felt hopeless. But somewhere in the middle of the despair, a spark lit up.
Combing through and analyzing thousands of pages of documents is exactly the kind of problem AI was built for.
I've built AI systems before, so I know the key to applying AI to a real-world problem is understanding the strengths and limitations of the available models, and figuring out how to make things not just work, but work efficiently enough to put into production.
I was placed under city detention due to health issues with my heart, compounded by a tumor that has been growing rapidly over the past few months. But it also means I still have access to my dev PC.
So I started with small experiments. My lawyers found a printing service that could scan the thousands of pages in a couple of days. At first, I tried simply uploading the scanned PDF into existing chatbots like ChatGPT, but the file was far too large for anything they could handle.
Even when I managed to get it working through external cloud storage, the results were atrocious. Half of the strategies and "facts" the models surfaced were hallucinations. That wouldn't just be useless in court, it's actively dangerous and can jeopardize my defense.
My experience building complex AI systems told me that the key to reducing those hallucinations is better data preprocessing.
So I spent the first couple of weeks focusing on parsing the uploaded PDFs, running various kinds of text extraction, and eventually settled on building an agentic AI swarm that performs multiple layers of preprocessing and analysis.
This multi-step analysis by several AI agents that swarm the PDF and extract different aspects of the case produces a dense knowledge graph where we can even trace the flow of money involved.
My lawyers can now easily browse, filter, and search through nearly 9000 witness statements. We even discovered several witnesses with duplicate testimony, raising suspicion of coordinated efforts or tampering among them.
But I didn't stop there. The processing chain includes several higher-level intelligence layers that draw from all the signals in the extracted knowledge graph. These layers add semantic understanding that powers a Chat AI feature, where we can ask specific questions about the case and get grounded answers.
I even built a self-reflective sub-agent that automatically challenges and inspects the results to make sure there are zero hallucinations.
Overall, the AI has helped me and my legal team uncover the big picture of what actually happened, and build questions that span hundreds of separate testimony sessions, giving us an unprecedented ability to cross-examine witnesses in court and significantly improved our defenses.
But I have grander vision than just helping my own legal team. Indonesia's legal system is severely overburdened, with a huge number of cases flowing through the courts every year. This kind of AI could be a useful tool not just for lawyers, but also for judges and prosecutors trying to make sense of their caseloads.
With the cross-examinations we've conducted and the weight of evidence that has come to light, we are aiming for an acquittal.
Should that be the case, my pledge is to keep building this AI platform into something that can meaningfully improve the quality of justice in our legal system: by helping investigators analyze cases more thoroughly and shine a light on any potential crimes, by raising the standard of what prosecutors bring before a judge, and by giving lawyers the ability to uncover the truth in their clients' cases faster than ever before.
Because in the end, I want what I've built to help more than just myself. I believe it can ease the burden on our judges and raise the quality of justice across the system in Indonesia.
Since last year, I've arguably been wrongfully accused in a state corruption case.
To defend my innocence, I spent past 6 weeks building an agentic AI swarm that:
Analyzed 4700+ pages court docs
Mapped 8900+ testimonies
Found dozens of contradictions
This is how I fight 👇🏼
First off, some context may be necessary.
Even though I'm accused in a state corruption case, I'm not a government official. I'm a software engineer. I spent over 15 years building large-scale tech systems across Europe and Indonesia. I've led engineering teams of up to 600 people and helped grow a small tech startup into a unicorn.
In 2016, I moved back from Europe to Indonesia, because I believe technology at scale could make a real difference to the millions of people in the nation.
Six years ago, working as a tech consultant under a nonprofit foundation, I started advising Indonesia's Ministry of Education on building large-scale technology platforms.
Public sector work pays significantly less than private sector, and I took close to a 50% pay cut to make the switch. I was fine with that. Using what I knew to help underserved communities in Indonesia felt like the right trade.
Our mission was to build a user-centric superapp for public education, specifically for teachers and public schools, the kind of work the private sector ignores because there's no money in it.
At some point, officials at the ministry asked for my input on one of their procurement plans. I helped them work through the technical details, shared what I knew, laid out the pros and cons, and recommended a set of tests they should run to determine which options were the most suitable.
By the time they made their final decision and executed the procurement, I had already resigned from the consulting work, so I didn't think much of it.
Fast forward to May 2025. My house was raided as part of a newly opened corruption investigation tied to that procurement. Two months later, I was named a suspect and placed under city detention due to my health.
The trial started in January 2026. We've been through more than a dozen sessions so far, and not a single piece of evidence or testimony has been presented showing I received a single cent from the procurement.
What came to light was the opposite: evidence and testimony that my recommendations were neutral and likely were ultimately ignored by the ministry's own team, who went ahead and made the call on their own.
So why am I the one on trial? Because the ministry officials who did take money from the procurement vendors needed someone to blame for the decisions they made. Blaming an outside consultant is the easy way out.
Witness testimonies in court has shown that the officials actively directed the procurement while claiming it was done on my instructions and even misled their own team within the ministry by saying I held a position of authority.
We needed evidence to dispute those accusations, questions to cross-examine the witnesses, and we needed them fast.
This is where my AI comes in.
A few days before the trial began, we received a 4400-page printed document containing all the witness statements collected during the investigation, plus several hundred pages of other related documents.
The information asymmetry is staggering. Those with deep enough pockets to hire large law firms can throw dozens of paralegals and associates at a document like that and mount a proper defense on short notice.
I didn't have that kind of money. By then, I had been out of work for more than six months. The AI startup I founded had to shut down. Our investors asked us to return their funding. I had to lay off the entire team.
Most of my lawyers are friends of my wife from her college days, who stepped up and waived most of their fees because they could see I was being railroaded.
The whole situation felt hopeless. But somewhere in the middle of the despair, a spark lit up.
Combing through and analyzing thousands of pages of documents is exactly the kind of problem AI was built for.
I've built AI systems before, so I know the key to applying AI to a real-world problem is understanding the strengths and limitations of the available models, and figuring out how to make things not just work, but work efficiently enough to put into production.
I was placed under city detention due to health issues with my heart, compounded by a tumor that has been growing rapidly over the past few months. But it also means I still have access to my dev PC.
So I started with small experiments. My lawyers found a printing service that could scan the thousands of pages in a couple of days. At first, I tried simply uploading the scanned PDF into existing chatbots like ChatGPT, but the file was far too large for anything they could handle.
Even when I managed to get it working through external cloud storage, the results were atrocious. Half of the strategies and "facts" the models surfaced were hallucinations. That wouldn't just be useless in court, it's actively dangerous and can jeopardize my defense.
My experience building complex AI systems told me that the key to reducing those hallucinations is better data preprocessing.
So I spent the first couple of weeks focusing on parsing the uploaded PDFs, running various kinds of text extraction, and eventually settled on building an agentic AI swarm that performs multiple layers of preprocessing and analysis.
This multi-step analysis by several AI agents that swarm the PDF and extract different aspects of the case produces a dense knowledge graph where we can even trace the flow of money involved.
My lawyers can now easily browse, filter, and search through nearly 9000 witness statements. We even discovered several witnesses with duplicate testimony, raising suspicion of coordinated efforts or tampering among them.
But I didn't stop there. The processing chain includes several higher-level intelligence layers that draw from all the signals in the extracted knowledge graph. These layers add semantic understanding that powers a Chat AI feature, where we can ask specific questions about the case and get grounded answers.
I even built a self-reflective sub-agent that automatically challenges and inspects the results to make sure there are zero hallucinations.
Overall, the AI has helped me and my legal team uncover the big picture of what actually happened, and build questions that span hundreds of separate testimony sessions, giving us an unprecedented ability to cross-examine witnesses in court and significantly improved our defenses.
But I have grander vision than just helping my own legal team. Indonesia's legal system is severely overburdened, with a huge number of cases flowing through the courts every year. This kind of AI could be a useful tool not just for lawyers, but also for judges and prosecutors trying to make sense of their caseloads.
With the cross-examinations we've conducted and the weight of evidence that has come to light, we are aiming for an acquittal.
Should that be the case, my pledge is to keep building this AI platform into something that can meaningfully improve the quality of justice in our legal system: by helping investigators analyze cases more thoroughly and shine a light on any potential crimes, by raising the standard of what prosecutors bring before a judge, and by giving lawyers the ability to uncover the truth in their clients' cases faster than ever before.
Because in the end, I want what I've built to help more than just myself. I believe it can ease the burden on our judges and raise the quality of justice across the system in Indonesia.
Ada satu petugas ATC di Palu. Beliau jadi malaikat bagi banyak orang.
Nama nya Anthonius Gunawan Agung.
Kerjaannya kelihatan biasa.
Duduk di menara.
Ngatur pesawat datang dan pergi.
Bukan pejabat. Bukan orang terkenal.
Waktu gempa besar 2018, landasan kacau.
Orang orang panik.
Pilot minta izin lepas landas secepatnya.
Dia bisa aja turun duluan. Nyelametin diri.
Tapi dia memilih tetap di atas.
Nunggu sampai pesawat terakhir bener bener lepas landas.
Beberapa menit kemudian, menara roboh.
Dia tidak sempat keluar.
Puluhan orang di pesawat itu pulang hidup hidup.
Namanya baru dikenal setelah dia tidak ada.
Kita sering kira pahlawan itu yang viral.
Padahal banyak yang kerjanya diam diam.
Efeknya, seumur hidup orang lain.
Rest In Peace 🫡
Ray Dalio, pendiri Bridgewater Associates, salah satu hedge fund terbesar di dunia, baru saja menulis artikel dengan judul: It’s Official: The World Order Has Broken Down. Yang sudah baca banyak bener, puluhan juta views dan terus naik
Artikelnya panjang. Tapi menurut saya, worth to read. Banyak insight berguna bagi investor
Buat yang malas baca, berikut saya ringkas secara singkat aja. Fokus saya pada hal yang berhubungan dengan investasi saham, mata uang, emas, dan obligasi
Ray Dalio mengatakan tatanan dunia pasca-PD II resmi ambruk. Di Munich Security Conference, para pemimpin dunia mengaku aturan lama udah mati – sekarang mode hukum rimba. Yang kuat yang menang. Dunia sedang memasuki kekacauan global ala Stage 6 Big Cycle: perang dagang, tech war, sampe konflik militer beneran
Buat investor, hal ini berita yang nggak enak. Kita akan memasuki kondisi yang volatil parah. Tapi Dalio kasih petunjuk simpel (dari historis 1930-45)
Saham: Bisa naik dulu di negara kuat/power rising (stimulus + militer boost), tapi risk wipeout kalau kalah perang. Volatil banget. Akhirnya pasar saham pihak pemenang perang potensial naik
Emas: Juara! Dalio dengan tegas bilang: "Sell out of all debt and buy gold" – karena perang dibiayai cetak duit + pinjaman. Uang & hutang ambruk, emas tetep kinclong buat lindung nilai & safe haven
Mata uang: Hati-hati fiat yang lemah – inflasi & devaluasi gila pas cetak uang buat perang. Diversifikasi ke hard asset atau mata uang kuat/aliansi
Obligasi: Korban pertama – didevaluasi habis-habisan via monetisasi hutang & defisit meledak. Hindari atau kurangi drastis
Kesimpulan singkat bagi investor:
Prioritaskan aset anti-kekacauan seperti emas, kurangi eksposur hutang/obligasi, pilih saham strategis di rising power. Diversifikasi dengan bijak, jangan all-in satu tempat. Ibaratnya dunia lagi main poker tanpa aturan, jadi play safe dulu!
Arknights: Endfield Zeroth Directive: DEV Comm
Dear Endministrator:
Ever since the official release of Arknights: Endfield, Talos-II —— has welcomed numerous explorers and builders of boundless passion, intellect, and spirit of altruism. Together, Endministrators from across the world have filled the world of Endfield with life and riches.
As of February 1, 2026, power transmission lines laid down by every Endministrator of the world have reached a total length of 42,195,240,313 meters and a total of 23,271,228 shared facilities have received repairs. An Easy Stash facility located in The Hub of Valley IV also received the most installations and repairs, totaling 4,342,952 repairs. We hereby thank Endministrators of the entire world for your efforts in joint construction and mutual support!
To make team creation easier for Endministrators and improve the early-game experiences in combat and exploration, all Endministrators who complete the main mission [Chapter Ⅰ Process I: Break the Siege] shall receive a progress reward: [Designation Selection Permit]×1. Use this permit to designate and acquire one of the 6★ operators featured in the Basic Headhunting banner.
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SEMUA
I repeat,
SEMUA
zat yg kita konsumsi itu ada yg namanya LD50 (Lethal Dose, 50%) atau dosis dimana 50% populasi binatang percobaan yg kita kasih itu meninggal.
LD50 eugenol
- Mice (Oral): >1,500 mg/kg body weight (bw)
- Rats (Oral): >2,000 mg/kg bw (OECD Guideline 423)
Makanan yg umum kita konsumsi sehari2 saja kalo dikonsumsi dalam jumlah banyak jg bersifat lethal.
Contoh:
LD50 kafein adalah 150-200mg/kg berat badan. Jika berat badan manusia rata2 misalkan 70-80kg, maka dosis kafein sekitar 10 gr s/d 16 gr itu bisa mematikan.
1 gelas kopi (sekitar 230-240ml) mengandung kurang lebih 95 mg kafein yang berarti kalo kita minum 105 gelas kopi (24 liter kopi) sekaligus, maka kandungan kafeinnya cukup tinggi untuk mencapai LD50.
Kesimpulannya apa?
Lebih kritis dalam menyingkapi informasi seperti ini, jangan ditelan bulat2.
Sunday Tip
One thing that has kept me profitable in crypto, and something I strongly recommend to anyone who wants to survive this game, is understanding that you do not know enough to attempt the hard game.
The people who chase precision, timing, and constant action end up competing in a field where the odds are stacked against them from the start.
The easy game is long term positioning and waiting for liquidity. Long term is boring and liquidity tests your patience, but these are the only areas where most people actually have a chance. When you stay inside that lane, the market becomes simpler, clearer, and far less dangerous.
Imagine this.
You are a decent golfer and one day you tell your wife that you will be devoting the next 10 years to the sport because you intend to win the green jacket.
She would laugh at the quixotic nature of that declaration, because the gap between being decent and becoming world class is unbridgeable for most people.
That is the same illusion people fall into when they convince themselves they can play the hard game in trading.
When you are in this juxtaposition between the desire to feel special and realism, realism has to win. Because if you ignore it in pursuit of your quixotic quest, it will most probably end badly.
MY TAKEAWAY FROM TODAY'S OPENAI AI BROWSER LAUNCH:
the internet just got hands.
the average person won’t google, click, compare, or fill out forms within the next 24 months.
they’ll just say “book my trip”, “find me a job”, “launch my store” and the agent will do the 20 steps behind the scenes.
that means whole industries... travel, e-commerce, real estate, insurance, education are about to get rebuilt around outcomes instead of pages.
you won’t “go” to Expedia, you’ll just get the trip.
if you’re a founder, this is the moment to think in verbs. don’t build platforms people visit. build agents that finish what people start.
that’s where the next $100B companies come from.
the web is shifting from human browsing to agent doing.
internet hands.
I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.
It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.
It says there are 5 levels of work:
Level 1: “There is a problem.”
Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”
Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”
Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”
Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”
Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…
You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.
Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee.
Plz feel free to steal it as well.
And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!