Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Madiun, East Java, Indonesia · 2013

Indonesia: life imprisonment for poisoning a family of three whose money ritual had failed

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

dukun running a money-multiplication scheme for clients

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

CORE: the victims drank what the dukun handed them because the ritual required it. Obedience to the rite is what delivered the poison — the same structure as the Banjarnegara and Kayu Agung records.

Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim
Ritual, oath, or initiation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2013-05-28 · conviction and life sentence

Pengadilan Negeri Madiun, Indonesia. Agus Basuki was convicted on 28 May 2013 under Article 340 of the criminal code and the child-protection law, and sentenced to life imprisonment, for murdering three clients of his money-multiplication scheme — Giantoro, Retno Sugiharti and their eleven-year-old daughter Tania — with potassium-laced ritual drinks after the scheme failed.

Documented coercion mechanisms

ritual drinks laced with potassium, taken on the practitioner's instruction
clients' unquestioning obedience to ritual instructions

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Detik Jatim: case report of the Madiun conviction and life sentence.: National outlet's court report.

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