By Sascha Ruiz
Indonesiaherbals.com is a scam masterminded and operated by Pangeran Habasaron (see here for a photo of his Indonesian ID card), who fronts on the Internet as Pangeran Aryos.
As a con artist, he claims to have 101 to 500 employees , and a sales volume of 50 to 100 million US dollar a year, haha. See a printscreen of his Alibaba page here. He also writes on his site:
"We are amongst leading pure herbal extract manufacturers & suppliers in Indonesia... Licensed, inspected and registered by The Indonesian Health Ministry (Department Kesehatan) and Balai Pengawasan Obat dan Makanan (the Indonesian Food and Drug Administration) : TR113225021."
The license they obtained is not for what they sell.
In true con artist style, Pangeran Habasaron misrepresents documents.
The license he obtained is for sachets of 6 gram of root powder... a raw product. See root powder license here. Enlarged here.
But what he sells is alleged 1:50 and 1:200 extract.
It's like a car repair shop offering cheap repair for airplanes. Would you fly in aircraft repaired by car repair shops, or would you find this dangerous?
Pangeran Habasaron does not have a facility to produce extracts. He cooks up his stuff in a garage-style setting.
And what he cooks up is neither 1:50 nor 1:200 tongkat ali extract. See here for printscreen of his 1:50 offer and here for printscreen of his 1:200 offer.
In true con artist style, Pangeran Habasaron also promises a full money-back guarantee.
It reads like this:
Money back guarantee. If you're not completely ecstatic about the result, simply let us know our product isn't working for you and you get all your money back.
Pangeran Aryos
Customer Support Service
indonesiaherbals.com
See a printscreen of this worthless money-back guarantee here.
Haha, after pocketing the money from overseas customers, mail of those who want their money back is just ignored. See indonesia-herbals.net for the website of one such cheated customer.
For comparison, printscreens of Indonesian licenses for 1:50 tongkat ali capsules here and 1:200 tongkat ali capsules here, from a genuine manufacturer, Sumatra Pasak Bumi.
And also a printscreen of an Indonesian-English dictionary page, showing the meaning of the word "serbuk".
Anyway, Pangeran Habasaron's illegal tongkat ali sales have been widely reported in the Indonesian media.
Here a link to one such report, in the daily Medan Bisnis, a printscreen of that page, a gif file of the report as it appeared in print, and a gif file of a report printed in the Andalas daily.
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Edwin Sitorus
Jln Kapten Muslim No 25
Kel Pekan Binjai Kec
Binjai Kota, North Sumatra 20711
Indonesia
