Conviction New religious movements Guru-led movement or ashram Mataram, Indonesia · 2018

Indonesia: celebrity spiritual guru 'Aa Gatot' convicted of raping an underage follower in padepokan 'rituals'

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Appellate history

2018

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

celebrity spiritual guru; head of Padepokan Brajamusti

Organization

Padepokan Brajamusti

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A minor inside a guru's padepokan, assaulted within practices he framed as spiritual ritual — with his own courtroom admission of the ritual frame.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Ritual, oath, or initiation

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Proceedings

2018-01-01 · convictions final at the Supreme Court

Indonesian courts (Mataram and South Jakarta dossiers); Mahkamah Agung. Gatot Brajamusti, the celebrity spiritual guru known as 'Aa Gatot', was convicted of raping an underage female follower — paternity confirmed by DNA — within padepokan 'rituals' in which victims were drugged, alongside drug offences; his cumulative sentences reached roughly twenty years after Supreme Court rulings in 2018. He admitted in court that 'sex rituals' occurred at the padepokan. He died in prison in November 2020.

Documented coercion mechanisms

'sex rituals' framed as spiritual practice
victims drugged
guru veneration by an entertainment-world following

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Sources

national newspaper court reporting conviction history report Sindonews: case-history recap of the convictions.: National outlet's documentation of the conviction set.
national newspaper court reporting trial report Tempo: Gatot admits sex rituals at the padepokan.: National magazine of record on the courtroom admission.

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Source and tier basis: https://lifestyle.sindonews.com/read/225930/187/9-fakta-gatot-brajamusti-dari-guru-spiritual-hingga-vonis-20-tahun-penjara-1604934698?showpage=all Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: conviction-history-report. SHA-256 848966ab22526c567e2b9cbcecff90720a4586b8a6ca431189119dacb2715dda
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Source and tier basis: https://www.tempo.co/hukum/gatot-brajamusti-akhirnya-akui-ada-ritual-seks-di-padepokan-1328825 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: trial-report. SHA-256 7f3f1b8ed124f002a4aba64bdcb19199e76292726c62174db9e564cf9b710554
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