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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia · 2021

Indonesia: pastor's 11-year sentence for abusing a congregant he had informally adopted

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Protestant pastor (pendeta)

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victim was a member (jemaat) of the defendant's own church whom he had taken into his household, so that pastoral authority and quasi-parental control operated together to make the abuse unrefusable.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-04-13 · conviction, increased on appeal, cassation rejected

    Surabaya District Court; High Court; Supreme Court of Indonesia. Pastor Hanny Layantara was sentenced by the Surabaya District Court to 10 years for sexually abusing a member of his congregation whom he had informally adopted, from roughly age 10–12 until age 15. The sentence was increased to 11 years on appeal, and the Supreme Court rejected his cassation.

Appellate history

  1. 2021 · undefined

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  2. 2021-04-13 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • combined pastoral and quasi-parental authority over a congregant taken into his household

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting final appellate disposition 'Kasasi Kandas, Pendeta di Surabaya Dibui 11 Tahun karena Cabuli Jemaatnya', Detik.com, 13 Apr. 2021.

Reports the Supreme Court's rejection of cassation and the final 11-year sentence for abuse of a member of his congregation.

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