INDONESIA
The Jakarta Post
August 30, 2020
By Margareth S. Aritonang
It was an hour past midnight on Sept. 9, 2019, when Joni, a teenage boy living in an orphanage, was awakened by what he described as a “painful feeling” on his genitals. When he opened his eyes, he beheld a nightmare.
“He was there. He was shocked,” Joni said. “I put on my pants and chased him down the stairs.”
“’What did you do to me, Brother? Why did you pull [my pants] down?’”
Recalling the horror of that night, Joni, who has chosen to use a pseudonym to protect his identity, explained how he confronted Lukas Lucky Ngalngola, the director of Joni’s orphanage, whom the boys referred to as the “night bat”. He said Lukas begged for forgiveness for “making a mistake” and got to his knees and kissed Joni’s feet.
Joni, who was 19 years old at the time, did not know what to do next with Lukas, or Brother Angelo as he styled himself. Joni wanted to hit Angelo, his sole guardian and the head of the Kencana Bejana Rohani orphanage in Depok, West Java, where Joni and dozens of other children lived under Angelo’s care.
But Joni could not think straight.
“I rushed to the chapel. I asked God to forgive my sin and his.”
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