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.
