A
report drawn up by Human Rights Watch “Living in Hell: Abuses against
People with Psychosocial Disabilities in Indonesia” examines how people
with mental health conditions often end up chained or locked up in
overcrowded and unsanitary institutions, without their consent, due to
stigma and the absence of adequate community-based support services or
mental health care. In institutions, they face physical and sexual
violence, involuntary treatment including electroshock therapy,
seclusion, restraint and forced contraception.
Shackling people with mental health conditions is illegal in Indonesia and yet it remains a widespread and brutal practice.
Shackling people with mental health conditions is illegal in Indonesia and yet it remains a widespread and brutal practice.
