Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Banjarnegara, Central Java, Indonesia · 2024

Indonesia: 'Mbah Slamet' — death sentence for poisoning twelve clients of his money-multiplying ritual

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

dukun offering supernatural money-multiplication ('penggandaan uang')

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Every victim drank what he handed them because they believed in his power — the ritual was the murder weapon's delivery system.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-02-01 · death sentence; final per prosecution

Pengadilan Negeri Banjarnegara, Indonesia. Slamet Tohari, the Banjarnegara dukun known as 'Mbah Slamet', promised clients supernatural money-multiplication, then poisoned at least twelve of them with potassium-cyanide 'ritual' drinks when they demanded their money back, burying the bodies on his land. On 1 February 2024 he was sentenced to death for premeditated murder, one judge dissenting for life. By October 2024 he had been transferred to Nusakambangan as a death-row convict, and by July 2025 the prosecution listed his case as having final legal force.

Primary record

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Kompas.id: 'Slamet Tohari, dukun pembunuh 12 orang di Banjarnegara, divonis mati', 1 Feb. 2024.: Paper-of-record report of the death sentence.
national newspaper court reporting disposition update Detik Jateng: transfer to Nusakambangan as 'terpidana mati', Oct. 2024.: Documents the death-row transfer indicating the judgment's force.

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