{"id":151,"date":"2009-02-18T19:17:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T11:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/?p=151"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:20:12","slug":"ponari-the-child-witch-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/ponari-the-child-witch-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"PONARI &#8211; The Child Witch Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dcbf41adbfce20b42ced934b3586d115\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- RB_Square_Right_Top_Post -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5499563635738934\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7970629133\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You know, when you&#8217;re sick, normally you go to a doctor. No no no, this is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/doctors-fee-free-of-charge\/\">Doctor&#8217;s Fee &#8211; FOC<\/a> Part 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are people who studied for a certain period of time in a university to be able to cure a sick person, and Itrust them as people who know what they&#8217;re doing. I told this before, both of my parents are doctors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I know nowadays alternative medicine &amp; therapy are also so popular, as some people believe chemical medicine the doctors give you such as antibiotics could damage your internal organ, ie. kidney for a long term and continuous consumption. I guess for traditional &amp; alternative medicine as long as you know what you&#8217;re taking is save for your body, than it is acceptable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>But I just don&#8217;t get it<\/strong> <strong>! <\/strong>when I read the newspaper and saw on TV, thousands of people are willing to queue and evenspend the nights in front of a 10 year-old kid&#8217;s house,named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/World\/News\/0,,2-10-1462_2467172,00.html\">PONARI<\/a> in Jombang,East Java,Indonesia whom theybelieve has an almighty power to cure sickness by only dipping his hand holding a stone he admitted was given by the<em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8216;sky above&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/em> through lightning to a glass of water.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>His neighbor was his first patient coincidently, then the news spreaded around the area very fast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seeing that much of people with a hope that their sickness will go away only by drinking a water from <strong>Ponari&#8217;s stone<\/strong> made me sad. Not only it&#8217;s ridiculous, but it shows people out there how bad our medical service is in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If only the Government is able to provide free health facilities specially to the poor people, none of these would happen. I&#8217;m talking about 5 people died while they were waiting for Ponari, the elders who could not even get an air to breath with so many crowd around. This is insane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"ponari\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risanto.com\/beeamazing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ponari.jpg\" alt=\"ponari\" width=\"275\" height=\"200\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>photo courtesy of www.Liputan6.com<\/em><\/p>\n<!--CusAds-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, when you&#8217;re sick, normally you go to a doctor. No no no, this is not Doctor&#8217;s Fee &#8211; FOC Part 2. They are people who studied for a certain period of time in a university to be able to cure a sick person, and Itrust them as people who know what they&#8217;re doing. 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