A top Jakarta Metro Police psychiatrist says it is unlikely that a woman suffering amnesia after going missing the day before had been brainwashed.
"It takes a long time to brainwash a person, it can't be that fast," said Sr Nurcahyo, the head of the Jakarta Metro Police psychiatry division.
Laila Febriani, 26-year-old Transportation Ministry employee known as Lian, was reported missing by her family on April 7. A day later, she turned up dazed, confused and wearing a full veil at At-Ta'awun Mosque in Cisarua, Bogor, with no recollection of her past.
However, Nurcahyo said it was possible that Lian had been hypnotized.
"Hypnosis can be done in a short time, while brainwashing is planting a certain ideology in a person's mind by blocking their logic and common sense," he said.
Although he did not believe Lian had been brainwashed, Nurcahyo said it was possible to treat someone subjected to brainwashing methods through hypnotherapy.
"The therapy is like hypnosis, but it is performed under the consent of the client with the purpose of recovery and taking away the burden on the client's mind."
After hypnotherapy, a patient should be able to remember everything that happened during the period of brainwashing, he said.
"But we don't know for sure if Lian was brainwashed or hypnotized because we haven't met her," Nurcahyo said.
The Jakarta Police have requested the Association of Forensic Psychology for assistance to assess and treat Lian.
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hypnosis scams and thefts happen all the time in indonesia, every once in a while there is some news of someone just leaving the bank or the atm and lost his/her money without knowing what happened. The recounts always go something like this: "it was a stranger that approached and started talking, that is the last thing I remember..." malay/arab and or indian features are described often, those features have an aura of charm here by themselves.
The indonesian people is rather susceptible to hypnosis due to the wide array of paranormal phenomena (fake and otherwise), occult arts, animism, and the whole spectrum of religions and magic available and very present in indonesian daily live.
Once I lost money in a shopping mall and when I reported to security, the first thing they asked is if I have been talking or approached by any stranger...exactly because of that. They had Suveillance videos showing such instances that when reviewed by the victim were a complete shock since they didn't remember a thing. It was not my case though.