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'

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

celebrity spiritual guru; head of Padepokan Brajamusti

Organization

Padepokan Brajamusti

Spiritual nexus

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

Evidence structure

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.

Primary record

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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