On the television, the Mental Health Center looks very clean and nice with many doctors. Patients are lock up in a super white room. But what is happening in Indonesia is totally different. Patients in Indonesia’s Mental Health Center are treated as animal, or maybe even worse than that. They are chained like a prisoner — and some of them are even naked. I don’t think the staff even bother to cure them, but just to lock them up. No wonder, the Indonesia’s Mental Health Center are over populated. These pictures are taken by John Stanmeyer few years ago if I’m not mistaken. Do you think the condition there is still the same now?

Prison? Asia’s centers for the mentally ill-like this one in Indonesia—often seem more punitive than palliative

Patients at the Panti Bina Laras Cipayung mental health center in east Jakarta are left to lie on the soiled floor of the latrines

Most of the patients at the center are naked; some are shackled or chained to window bars

A half-naked elderly man too weak to stand eats on the floor of the Cipayung facility in east Jakarta

A woman patient at the Cipayung center reaches breaking point. Almost no other Asian nation offers less mental health care than Indonesia

Link & Images: TIMEasia via Hamkahlink

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