A recent report revealed that 18,800 people with psychosocial disabilities are currently chained and confined in small spaces in Indonesia.
The data released by the non-profit Human Rights Watch also stated that 57,000 people with real or perceived mental health conditions have been shackled and confined, a practice known as pasung, at least once in their life.
The Indonesian Ministry of Health has recognized pasung as inhumane and discriminatory and the practice has been banned by the government for decades.
The thought that someone has been living in her own excrement and urine for 15 years ... is just horrifying.
, Human Rights Watch
