These 18 Photos Reveal The Horrific Conditions Indonesian Mental Patients Live In
“Boarding school staff is trained to deal with extreme situations with their students (left). Seapudin’s (on the right) legs have been in restraints for 9 years. The muscles have atrophied because of the lack of use.”
“Patients lack food, clothes, exercise, social interactions.”
“There is no financing for basic things like food, so more expensive projects like facilities’ maintenance is out of the question.”
“Patients’ lives are limited by a confined space where they do everything: eat, sleep, shower.”
“Some families’ of the patients have paid for special healing sessions that usually take a spiritual approach.”
“Young woman in shackles at Bina Lestari Foundation (left). Wediodining Lawang Psychiatric Hospital (right) has been recognized as the best mental hospital in Indonesia. It is the first hospital to realize the need for a geriatric department.”
“A bed is one of the biggest luxuries a patient can have.”
“Social interactions are rare and are not done systematically.”
“Wediodining Lawang Psychiatric Hospital – named as the best mental hospital in Indonesia.”
“Life in solitude.”
