Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Traditional healing practitioners Magetan, East Java, Indonesia · 2024

Indonesia: repeat-offender dukun convicted of raping five minors via a spirit-pregnancy hoax

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled dukun

Organization

No organization assigned

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The entire scheme ran on manufactured supernatural dread: the spirit-pregnancy diagnosis created the affliction only his 'treatment' could cure.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Spiritual healing or treatment
Threatened spiritual consequence

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-01-01 · conviction and sentence

Pengadilan Negeri Magetan, Indonesia. A man identified as ABP, 40, posing as a dukun, was convicted of coercing at least five underage victims into sending explicit images and having sex with him as purported treatment after falsely telling them, via social media, that they had been impregnated by a genderuwo spirit. A repeat offender with a prior eight-year sentence for a similar scheme, he received fourteen years and an 800-million-rupiah fine.

Documented coercion mechanisms

false diagnosis that victims were impregnated by a genderuwo spirit
sex and explicit images demanded as the 'cure'

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Dukun pemerkosa 5 anak di Magetan divonis 14 tahun', Detik Jatim (2024), corroborated by Dandapala.: Reports the conviction, the genderuwo scheme, and the recidivism.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.detik.com/jatim/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 202e215dbf9562fa3c2b12202cb4eed1b392ddea15f4c95eacf64ef7f78aebe8
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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