A traditional healer believed to have spiritual and occult powers; a shaman.
〈东南亚〉明师（传说中拥有精神和神秘力量的治病者）；巫医
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Before 1998, being a dukun was a part-time occupation.
Now that particular evening I was visiting the local dukun (shaman).
In Indonesia there are dukun (witch doctors) and orang pintar, with dukun more associated with black magic, while orang pintar heal the sick.
Working from home, or in primitive premises, dukun often induce abortions using herb-based drinks followed by vigorous massage.
When this occurs, the paraji shows an aspect of her ability as a dukun by conducting an exorcism.
A woman breast-feeding her young child outside smiles toward the camera, and inside another house a dukun seems suspended in mid-air, surrounded by enthralled onlookers.
Javanese curers called dukun deal with a variety of illnesses of physical, emotional, and spiritual origin through combinations of herbal and magical means.
‘I know he dresses like a dukun and fools around with black magic,’ he says twisting a finger on his forehead.
It is obsessed with murderous witchhunts - in the late 1990s, many dukuns, traditional healers and magicians, were mysteriously killed in Eastern Java.