Family Victim

Himself - Doctor Mahar Agusno:
We people in Java, our lives are not separate from our culture. So [... ] if someone is sick in a family, the family will also share the suffering, and then the whole society will also share it, so whatever happens, both family and society will make the treatment possible. Because they all feel the effects of the illness.

Himself - Arjo, Traditional Healer:
According to Javanese values, his morality had broken with the norm. So according to the value system in the society, what he did was not proper, it had to be changed for the better. For example, he often got angry. Then he ran amok, right? He liked gambling, which, according to the social norms, is not good. When he felt like doing something, he just did it. He liked saying improper things. In Javanese there are some inappropriate expressions, and he just said them, like that, to the parents. Absolutely improper, very uncommon. For us Javanese it's not normal.

Himself - Estu:
There are voices that speak in my heart... which repeat inside myself which protest and tell me, "you have to do this... this... this..." [It's] because of the voices here, saying, "You have to do this... I ask the voice to shut up, but it keeps talking. Up until now. I feel there's another 'me'. Now I hate him so much. The one who is bad. Who is coward... If only he was in the form of a human being, I'd fight him. He makes me unsuccessful, a failure. Not like what I want.

Himself - Puji, Traditional Healer:
Well, talking about Estu, his case can be classified into very rare. Why do I say that his case is included into a rare case? Usually, usually if someone recovers, he will recover forever. But not him. He recovers, and gets worse again, recovers, gets worse.

Herself - Anna, Estu's Wife:
Frankly speaking, my heart aches to be in this situation. I myself become so stressed that sometimes I feel like I might go insane. I've got no more power to face him, I'm going to fall into shambles myself

Himself - Estu:
Maybe I receive all my siblings' difficulties. And they get all the good stuff. Their difficulties all come to me, I carry them all, on the other hand the fortune which I should also be given all goes to them... This is the path set up by God for me to take. In my opinion there are two answers to this. The first is that it's the law of nature, there is sorrow and there is happiness, there is day and there is night. The second is maybe I bear the consequences of my parents' or my grandparents' sins in the past. So there must be one victim who bears all of that.

Herself - Ninik, Estu's Sister:
He cannot come to our houses any longer, because we're afraid he might do something bad to our kids. He has threatened each of us, 'If you do not do good things to me, just remember my words, your children's blood will shed.' Even my mom... and well, actually it's a very sensitive thing, it's really a family secret, my mother gives up, and says prayers all night, 'Oh God, it's just so much for me to take in. You trusted him to us, but we cannot take it any longer, just take him back.'