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Smoking Mango Trees and Spinning Stones

By aboutindo | Published: August 25, 2010
Two stories here.  Each one showing the craziness that can occur when someone discovers a new ‘paranormal’ (metaphysical) concept that  captures the public’s attention. In the first part, someone in Tanggerang (West Jakarta) noticed that a kind of smoke rises from their mango trees every evening at dusk.  Personally, I don’t know if it’s normal for some trees to release [...]
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Unemployed before, now Unemployable

By aboutindo | Published: August 23, 2010
These two were in the news a couple of years ago.  According to the story, a village chief (kepala desa) received an sms from someone claiming to be a government officer and promising jobs for the two if they tattooed their faces with a ‘dragon’ pattern. All three of them claim to have been hypnotised by [...]
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Ponari, the Littlest Witch Doctor

By aboutindo | Published: May 15, 2010
In a rural society where people have little access to trained doctors or even reliable health information, they depend on alternative forms of treatment.  In some cases the treatment can be beneficial and even better than what Western medicine can provide.  In other cases the only possibility for a cure is the faith of the patients [...]
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Ketok Magic

By misterjames | Published: March 14, 2010
The guy in the clip doesn’t look much like the dukun I posted last week (maybe he had a shave after his bath?), but he’s performing a kind of magic.    By the gentle taps you can see him doing on the clip, he is able to beat out the dents in a sheet of metal without [...]
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Gutsy performance ends when dukun takes a bath

By misterjames | Published: March 7, 2010
This over-the-top clip from an old film (they still make them like this) features quite a few cultural icons: the dukun, the kris, the ghost. ‘Dukun’ is the term given to a widely varied group, ranging from faith healers to black witches. The common thread is that they use the spirit world.  I guess they have their [...]
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