Do Not Get Mad In Indonesia
Don’t get mad in Indonesia or you would be staying in a place like this. This is not prison but a Mental Health Center in Panti Bina Laras Cipayung, Indonesia. Photographer John Stanmeyer takes a closer and disturbing look at those suffering in silence.
These are the daily life for over 300 women and men who live like animals - many of them chained to walls. The government funded Cipayung center only has a budget of less than $1 USD per day to provide each patient with food and medicine.
The facility was only designed to hold 150 people, but due to the continuing economic problems facing Indonesia, many people on the streets can no longer cope and find themselves not only suffering from poverty, but also mentally, part of the growing problem of mental health in Asia.
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Some even naked, under feed and curled up in soiled toilets
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Chained and naked inmates
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The facility was only designed to hold 150 people, But its already more than 300 patients
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Source [Time] via [HamkaLink.Com]
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For more John Stanmeyer’s pictures, please check it out at [VII Photo Agency]
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INeedAttention.com said,
November 5, 2006 @ 8:09 pm
Very reminiscent of footage from “Titticut Follies”, a documentary about life in a mental institution in the United States in the 1960s.
msierant said,
November 5, 2006 @ 8:36 pm
Holy shit… Do another kinds of welfare in Indonesia look like this “health center”?
Derrell Piper said,
November 5, 2006 @ 8:59 pm
What’s your point? Have you been to San Francisco lately? Do you know how we treat our mentally ill?
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November 6, 2006 @ 2:25 am
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from Japan said,
November 6, 2006 @ 4:30 pm
I cannot understand WHAT HAPPENED.
Are they in prison? Or some kind of that?
What reasons make them to do so?
It’s ONLY , ONLY tortrue!
qouta said,
November 6, 2006 @ 7:48 pm
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Chuck said,
December 14, 2006 @ 5:30 am
“What’s your point? Have you been to San Francisco lately? Do you know how we treat our mentally ill?”
If mentally ill people in San Francisco are being held naked, scores to a room and laying for days in their own excrement, don’t you think you have a duty to get some cameras in there? Media can gain access to US facilities far easier than they can in Indonesia. You must immediately inform the police and newspapers in San Fransisco so that they can show us comparable images.
Unless you are not telling the truth and you are just trying to minimize this cruelty to make propaganda points in which case I can safely say that the pictures are not the only shocking thing on this page.
Chuck said,
December 14, 2006 @ 5:48 am
It should also be noted that Indonesia has enough money to harass East Timor. It also has the largest Islamic population in the world and might be a good place to do charitable work if one were swimming in petro dollars instead of setting up “schools” in central Asia which focus only on techniques for blowing one’s self up.
captainjohann, BANGALORE, INDIA said,
January 16, 2007 @ 1:30 pm
Sir,
As chuck has said it is easy to blame a third world country without first showing what is happenning to US mentallyill 1,80,000 persons who are kept in prisons in US due to the Act signed by the President kennedy in 1960 which recognised the rights of mentallyill but didnot cater to their involuntary treatment.mOST of them are African americans or hispanics.
In USA they recently executed a schizophernic who thought he was committing the murder on the orders of jesus.He was hallucinating till his execution.
In India the mentallyill used to be kept in prisons but the conditions varied from state to state.But due to human rights activists all of them got released to get freedom to be abused in streets inleu of security , food, roof provided by prisons at the cost of their freedom.There are 500 abondoned mentallyill woman at the banyan(www.thebanyan.org) .Otherwise all are at home or wandering the streets.But recently they are bettter looked after in hospitals.
these pictures are NOT WORSE OR BETTER than the condition of mentallyill in the asylums of sebernica when UN forces entered the town after the serbs vacated it.They took even their donkeys and dogs but ABONDONED THE MENTALLYILL. so let us not throw the first stone.
ken Ｆｕｓｅ said,
January 17, 2007 @ 11:42 am
I`m very sad.
I`m not have hope.
Dalia Gerulaitiene said,
January 20, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
Poverty and madhause, as it was before neuroleptics era, in the handbooks. But neuroleptics gave overmadication, violations of human rights because of intervention into human integrity, the biggest, I think, in USSR, where corridors and toilets were spitted with Aminazine and other neuroleptics. Also misusing of psychiatry took place, thanks to ’sluggish’ schizophrenia as academic background, and when somebody taken to “psichushka” begged to release, he heard: “Nothing, you became ill if still are not”. But 1977 Havaii Declaration of psychiatric ethics took place (by the way only for mentioning this Declaration in USSR you can got into “psichushka” as Soviets were banished from Honolulu WPA congress), and I think everything can be regulated, coercive treatment possible in the time of psychosis: if I am Queen of UK, it does not matter too much where to be - in madhause or in palace, but matter very much when you came out of psychosis, also when nonpsychotic person is treated by coertion as psychotic.
Though it will be not easy forgotten conditions naked human beings are living (in the photos), I would prefere to speak to everybody to understand why they are there? What happened in their lives they got into madhause, as from the photos they are not looking frantic or even quite apathic, it seems they can be helped
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orang indonesia asli said,
July 27, 2007 @ 7:48 am
kasian emang orang2x ini dijadiin bahan tontonan orang seluruh dunia. Mana ada lagi orang dari San Francisco yg belagu banget comment2x di sono lebih parah dari Indo. Emang orang amrik belagu banget, sono kalo mau tau dateng ke Indonesia jangan cuman ngomong gede doang mentang-mentang negaranya maju…otak dan hatinya juga paling nyangkut di dengkul doang
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