Hindu Ceremonies 1994 - Made Jati's Evidence to the Court


A Hindu ceremony did take place, but at our home in Sanur in 1994, not in Kuta in 1996 as Made claimed in her Accusation of Divorce, or Tabanan in 1996 as in the documents she used to obtain her Marriage Certificate in 1996.

Made and her family asked me to take part in the Hindu marriage ceremony as a reaffirmation of our 1985 California marriage. They did not tell me that they planned to use it to prepare new false marriage documents and cancel our California marriage.

Before the Hindu marriage ceremony was a Hindu Sudiwudani or baptism ceremony, which Made's family explained as necessary before the marriage. It took place in the morning, and the marriage ceremony in the afternoon.

Certificate of Sudiwudani, 25 May 1994, entered as evidence by Made Jati.

Most of the photos and documentary evidence entered by Made were also of the Sudiwudani.

It only later became clear with the Accusation of Divorce in 2005 that Made was asserting that the Bali Hindu marriage in Kuta 1994—although it actually took place in Sanur 1994—cancelled the validity of the California marriage of 1985. The many photos, documents, and (perjured) witness testimony in the Divorce trial we necessarly to establish the Sudiwudani part beyond doubt because a Hindu ceremony is only valid if the participants are indeed Hindu.