A woman has been found dead after being treated by a so called traditional medication in Cipancur village, Sukabumi, West Java Province.
The husband of the 50 year-old Komariah, Dayat, told kompas.com Saturday that bruises were found all over her corpse, but the cause of death had not been clarified by an autopsy.
Dayat said Komariah, who had been suffering from a nerve dysfunction for two years, was admitted to the care of an alternative medication practitioner near his village on Thursday. She died the following day.
"I was forbidden to see her when I went there to visit and give her fruits. The practitioner said that she was resting.
"On Friday night, my wife's body was delivered to our house, fully covered by white sheets. Due to curiosity of the cause of the death, my family opened the sheets and found bruises all over her body," Dayat said.
The family reported the incident to a local police office, which then sent officers to question the alternative medication practitioner and took Komariah's body to Syamsudin Hospital in Cisaat city for autopsy.
Heryanto, a physician in charge of the autopsy, said that he need more time to examine the body before deciding the cause of death.
"An initial examination to the corpse indicates that the bruises were caused by a hammering of a blunt object," Heryanto said.
