Daddy Issues Drove Him To Murder 42 Women | The Case of Ahmad Suradji, ‘Dukun’ from Hell II

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In the first chapter, you have read about the 42 women who were found dead on a sugarcane field. If you have not read it yet, I recommend you to read it before proceeding (Read HERE).

Now, this case is interesting, and sad at the same time, since you can clearly see that it stems from severe daddy issues, and how delusion can drive someone mad.

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‘Dukun’

As we all know, Ahmad Suradji is a sugarcane farmer and a self-claimed sorcerer, or like how I address him, a ‘wizard’ (because it sounds silly) that used to live in a village, in North Sumatra around the 90s. A wizard/sorcerer in Bahasa Indonesia is called “Dukun”(read as Dookoon). Now, you should be aware that these dukuns are a little different than how they are perceived in the West.

Dukun according to the Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI, the official dictionary of Bahasa Indonesia), is written as