Freedom for the mentally ill people in Indonesia

People with psychosocial disabilities in Indonesia are often chained or forced into institutions where they face abuse, according to Human Rights Watch.

The US-based rights group's report, released on Monday, revealed that 57,000 people in Indonesia with mental health conditions have been subjected to "pasung" (shackled and often locked up in a confined space) at least once in their lives.People subjected to pasung have their ankles bound with shackles, rope or wooden stocks and are locked in confined spaces where they eat, sleep, urinate, and defecate.Shackling people with mental health conditions is illegal in Indonesia, yet it remains a widespread and brutal practice," said Kriti Sharma, disability rights researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the report.

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