The Alien. Indonesia

Date: 1972 
Location: Pantai Selatan, Java, Indonesia
Time: various
Summary: A local man, Hendra Hartanto, claimed that he had been 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. 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 thousand 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 mutilations cases (and goats) 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. The tiny beings are almost human-like in appearance, but seem to be more ling 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 has 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 Southeast 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.
Source: Ahmad Jamaluddin “Alien Encounters # 25 1998”