Question Force Creeper Explosion

My main goal is to get the creeper to explode immediately when it's damaged. However I can't seem to find a method that will basically start the creepers fuse. I want to make it as though if a player were to walk up to it, it hisses and is about to blow up. I was assuming the method would be something along the lines of creeper.explode() or creeper.startFuse(), but I just can't find anything.

I'm trying to avoid just removing the creeper and summoning an explosion at it's position due to griefing protected land purposes. I know GriefPrevention protects from plugin-created explosions, but other plugins such as WorldGuard do not. There must be a way to explode the creeper

 

@2008Choco very possible, just gonna have to do some nms (craftcreeper, one of the a methods with the explosion parameters).

 

@BizarrePlatinum Shoot, I was trying to avoid using NMS ;-;

So I've looked through the methods of CraftCreeper instead and haven't found a method that causes it to explode either. Perhaps I'm just completely blind and missed the method that does so (It's happened before, I wouldn't be surprised). Perhaps an example?

 

@2008Choco CraftCreeper.getHandle().a(Explosion, World, BlockPosition, IBlockData)