Jenglot Jive – Tiny Entities Discovered In Southeast Asia

Ahmad Jamaludin

The UFO picture in Indonesia is still a haze one, as no-one knows the actual situation there. Indonesia has over 3,000 islands lying along the active earthquake belt in soouth-east Asia. There have been occasional reports of UFOs seen over the country, but on the whole nobody pays much attention to it. There are probably numerous cases of close encounter events with UFO occupants, but unfortunately they have not made it to press. According to newspaper editors, such reports have no credibility and hence they are not taken seriously.

However, one interesting case caught their attention. An Indonesian man, Hendra Hartanto, claimed that he was able to capture a few mysterious beings measuring only 4 inches tall, after undergoing a process of isolation and meditation for an undisclosed period of time in Pantai Selatan, Java during 1972. These tiny entities are interesting not just because they are something ‘out of this world’, but they are similar in size to the reported encounters with tiny UFO occupants seen in Malaysia. Most of the UFO beings coming out of landed tiny UFOs in Malaysia measured only between three to nine inches in height. However, Hartanto never claimed that the entities he captured were UFO occupants. He believed that these beings were the manifestations of white monkeys, due to a spiritually imposed curse by Hartanto. According to him, the strange entities had aged over thousands of years, and that each year the size of their bodies became smaller.

To keep them alive, Hartanto fed the creatures human blood every 35 days. He said that he obtained the blood from valid sources, and sometimes even donated his own. If these entities actually dined on blood, perhaps the loss of blood in cattle mutilation cases could throw some light as to who might be needing blood for survival.

To back up his claims of the captured beings, Hartanto has put his finds up for display at shopping malls around Jakarta. He is currently charging 5,000 rupiah for those who are interested in seeing the creatures, and Hartanto’s fan-base are mostly comprised of housewives and children.

My Teddy Bear

The tiny beings are almost human-like in appearance, but seem to be more like long-haired dolls with round protruding eyes. Without its fangs and claw-like fingers and toes, one of the beings looks more like a child’s teddy bear! The only visible difference is that they appear to be alive.

Hartanto usually displays four of these unusual creatures, which he calls Jenglot. He has male and female Jenglots and, according to Hartanto, the males are more aggressive when compared to the female of the species. Each of the Jenglots have a different facial complexion, allowing him to easily differentiate between them and give them individual names.

Even though these tiny creatures are becoming increasingly popular with the south-east Asians, Hartanto has incurred the ire of the Muslim community. The latter believe that the presence of the Jenglot could encourage a deeper belief in supernatural phenomena.

Hartanto shows his Jenglot to anyone who is interested, thus it is unlikely that they are a hoax. Also, it has been reported that several local scientists have examined the creatures in order to determine their species and origin. To date, they are still baffled by the almost human-like appearance of the creatures, and so no official statements have yet been made. Hartanto, however, is still parading his Jenglot colony around the city of Jakarta, whatever they may actually be.

For anyone interested in capturing their own Jenglot, Hendra Hartanto recommends a trip to Celebes Island, where his specimens allegedly originated from.