Dominggus Kenjam, speaking on the first day of the 8th Annual Christian Medical Conference on "Spirituality and Medicine" (June 12-13, 2011) in Brisbane, Australia, said he was a 20-year-old student at the Theological School at Dulos Seminary, in Cilandak, Jakarta, when the shocking attack occurred on December 15, 1999.
"It happened at 9:00 pm and I was asleep that night and was startled as a friend woke me up, because of a sudden attack by a mass of unknown people," he said. "The whole campus was in flames and they spread very quickly, so all 300 students ran out. It was complete chaos.
"I did too, but unfortunately a small group caught me and began hitting me with their bare hands and others with wooden blocks. They even had a long knife with them. After they seemed to be satisfied with the beating they had given me, they sent me to a bigger group and they began to torture me, and I heard one of them say, 'Kill him!'
"I could only pray at that time and I said, 'If I die now, I surely will be in heaven.' Then I lost my consciousness. They threw me into a ditch besides the campus, and covered my body with banana leaves. It is a custom here that when somebody finds an unknown dead body, for a while they cover it with banana leaves."
The former student then recounted the following story: "While I was in the ditch, I felt that my soul leave my body. I looked down and I could see my wounded body lying in that ditch. All of a sudden, there were five angels besides me and they led me to some place. While we walked -- two angels at my left and two at my right and one in front of me - I noticed that the environment around me was death black. I could even hear some voice crying and mourning in the darkness.
"Then, in front of me, there was a hole, but it was a size that all the five angels and even myself could pass through. Behind that hole, I found a very beautiful palace, shining and so peaceful and there were many seemingly kind people wandering around.
"In that palace, there was a voice from someone driving a horse with a glittering face and I knew it was Jesus. He spoke to me and opened a book that contained all of my mistakes and wrong-doings in the past.
"I said, 'I confess all of my sin to you,' but then he said, 'You have to go back' and that is when that I regained consciousness and was thrown in the middle of the road by these radicals. At the time, I lost my consciousness again.
"Later on, when people came to the area, they found me and thought that I was dead, so they lifted me carelessly. They wanted to bring me to at the hospital for an autopsy. They just sutured my wound around my neck just to make it look nicer and put a brace in my neck so my 'artificial neck' could keep my head in place and sent me to the ICU."
The former Bible student went on to say that while in the ICU at the hospital, he had another vision and explained it in this way: "When I regained my consciousness again, I felt so hungry. It seemed that I had two encounters with Jesus and had a taste of the after life. Praise the Lord that He gave me a second chance, so I will keep on praising the Lord for the rest of my life."
Dominggus said that while in the ICU, he was not being treated, but added, "I could not blame anyone since there were 37 victims from our school who were brought to the hospital and they were very busy."
However, things continued to go from bad to worse for him. "In the ICU, I caught a high fever and I went into a coma," he said. "Then, on December 19, 1999, they considered me dead again and planned to send me to morgue."
But then, he said, a miracle occurred. "My pastor, who was there with me, insisted that he and others with him should pray one more time for me, and all of a sudden, I gained consciousness. I opened my eyes and asked the nurse to give me food as I was so hungry. I also suddenly stood up and went to the basin and I wanted to wash my blood-stained face."
As he gave his dramatic presentation to the medics, pictures of him - some really shocking - were put on the screen and also the front page of an Indonesian magazine that featured his healing story. Suddenly, many in this mainly Muslim nation, heard about his miraculous recovery from such shocking wounds and even the governor of Jakarta came to visit him.
Dominggus Kenjam, speaking through an interpreter, finally thanked God for sparing his life and received a standing ovation from the doctors at the conference.
The conference, which was organized by the World Christian Doctors Network, (www.wcdn.org) is an annual event and is a time where medical professionals seek out proof of miracles, and this year's program was no different with many startling cases being presented.
Next year's WCDN conference is scheduled for near the end of May 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya.