The Keraton Agung Sejagat ( jv, ꦏꦫꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦲꦒꦸꦁꦱꦗꦒꦢ꧀, Karaton Agung Sajagad; en, Universal Grand Throne) was a hybrid mystical movement and micronation based out of

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, Indonesia. Founded by Totok Santoso Hadiningrat (also known as R. Toto Santoso) and Dyah Gitarja (also known as Fanni Aminadia), the Keraton started operations in 2018 and eventually accumulated around 450 members. The Keraton attracted unfavourable public attention when they publicly performed the ''wilujengan'' ritual in a Purworejo township.

Timeline

Origins

In 2016, Hadiningrat founded the Jogjakarta Development Committee (DEC), claiming to be an NGO working in the field of development. Hadiningrat claimed that anyone who signed up to be a member would get disbursements of around 100 to 200 dollars a month. These disbursements would be drawn on the committee's account with the Esa Monetary Fund, a fictional Swiss bank. The disbursements would never materialise. Four years later, Hadiningrat would re-surface with the Keraton.

Founding

Hadiningrat claimed he was granted the authority to found a successor state to the

Majapahit Majapahit ( jv, ꦩꦗꦥꦲꦶꦠ꧀; ), also known as Wilwatikta ( jv, ꦮꦶꦭ꧀ꦮꦠꦶꦏ꧀ꦠ; ), was a Javanese people, Javanese Hinduism, Hindu-Buddhism, Buddhist thalassocracy, thalassocratic empire in Southeast Asia that was ba ...

Empire in 2018. He based this claim on the contention that when the Majapahit emperor Dyah Ranawijaya signed over sovereignty to the

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in 1518, he did so on the condition that sovereignty be returned 500 years in the future.

Frivolous claims

Hadiningrat claimed

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and the

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as being under the authority of the Keraton. He also claimed dominion over every country on Earth. Hadiningrat painted a portrait in which the United Nations served as the legislature, the

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the judiciary, and the Pentagon responsible for the defence of the Keraton.

Response and further developments

Hadiningrat collected around 200 dollars from prospective members in exchange for uniforms and titles. On 12 January 2020, Keraton members held a ''wilujengan'' at Pogung Juru Tengah township in Purworejo Prefectire. The event reportedly caused local residents discomfort, and many of them lodged first information reports with the

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. The following day, law enforcement officers arrived to investigate the scene. Hadiningrat and Gitarja were taken into custody on 14 January in

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. They were transferred to

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and designated suspects on the 15th. On the 21st, Hadiningrat admitted in a press conference that the ''Keraton'' was a scam, and that its alleged historicity was entirely fabricated.

Public response

Sultan

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, Governor of the Jogjakarta Special Administrative Region, reportedly laughed and denied knowing of the ''Keraton'' when interviewed. Bondan Kanumoyoso, a historian at the

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, rejected Hadiningrat's claims outright, saying that the Majapahit Empire collapsed in 1478. This would constitute a discrepancy with Hadiningrat's claim of a 1518 Majapahit-Portuguese treaty, on which the ''Keraton'''s legitimacy is predicated.

References

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