Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Traditional healing practitioners Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia · 2023

Indonesia: life sentences for three money-ritual practitioners who poisoned clients who saw through the fraud

Request a correction or reply

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

three practitioners operating a money-multiplication scheme

Organization

No organization assigned

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

BORDERLINE, stated as such: the victims were clients under the practitioners' ritual authority, but the killings were to silence people who had seen through the fraud rather than acts of the ritual itself. It sits closer to fraud-homicide than to the pure coercion pattern, and is recorded with that qualification.

Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2023-11-01 · convictions and life sentences

Pengadilan Negeri Bekasi, Indonesia. Wowon and two co-defendants were convicted at the Bekasi district court around November 2023 and sentenced to life imprisonment — the prosecution having sought death — for poisoning three clients of their money-multiplication scheme: Ai Maimunah, Muhamad Riswandi and Ridwan Abdul Muis, killed after they discovered the fraud.

Documented coercion mechanisms

ritual authority over paying clients
poisoning of clients who realised the scheme was fraudulent

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Suara Bekasi: court report of the life sentences.: Regional outlet's court report.

Source provenance

Source access and integrity log

This log records source retrieval and file integrity. It does not mean that an automated process independently confirmed every statement in the source.

Source and tier basis: https://bekaci.suara.com/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 5864b9f3ef551e89bbae86ecbf2b8b8d4f1849bb0db705a8d73f8279a3a77ee4
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

Named in this record? Request a correction, report a changed disposition, or submit a response.

Related record

Related cases · Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship

Browse all 76 Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship records

← Explore all cases