Month: June 2010

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Pre Retirement Program for PERTAMINA

In almost every country, the proportion of people aged over 60 years is growing faster than any other age group, as a result of both longer life expectancy and declining fertility rates. This population ageing can be seen as a success story for public health policies and for socioeconomic development, but it also challenges society to adapt, in order to maximize the health and functional capacity of older people as well as their social participation and security.

Pertamina, a State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN), was changed into Company operating in field of energy, petrochemical and other business supporting the business of Pertamina, either domestically or internationally, which is market-mechanism oriented. It’s established on December 10, 1957 under the name PT Permina. In 1961 the company changed its name to PN Permina and after the merger with PN Pertamin in 1968 it became PN Pertamina. With the enactment of Law 8 of 1971 the company became Pertamina. This name persisted until after Pertamina changed its legal status to PT Pertamina (PERSERO) on October 9, 2003.

As a State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN), Pertamina doesn’t want to make their employee suffer in their old age. For this they create a pre retirement program to prevent the employee sufering a post power syndrome. To balance the mind body and spirit, the company need the expert on the field, Professor Luh Ketut Suryani. Using her unique concept biopsychospirit-sociocultural approach, she provide a holistic preparation for the employee. The program was held in Hotel The Patra Bali on June 29, 2010.

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Chained to a life of madness

There are 725,000 severely mentally ill Indonesians who receive no treatment at all and some of them in restrained condition. A sad situation but even that central government of Indonesia do nothing and prefer to just simply said “It’s terrible. It’s a situation that should not happen. Not only in terms of psychiatric diseases but in terms of humanity”. There are no willingness to help nor admit their foult of creating useless program in treatment the mental disorder. Most of the psychiatrists in the nation just prefer to work behind the desk and just said “The biggest problem for [Indonesians] is collective denial”. In a sense they just want to say, “We wait the patients but there’s no body coming to our hospital”

One treatment model gaining increasing interest is the work of Dr Luh Ketut Suryani, a remarkable Balinese psychiatrist who used traditional spiritualism and meditation – as well as anti-psychotic drugs – to achieve results with those in pasung. ”Most important of all is the acceptance back to the family, the community,” she says. ”One pasung patient we cared for was in [confinement] for over 40 years. It took us three months, three injections and some therapy. The last time we visited him, he was doing well. Back with his family and communicating with others in the village.”

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Connection to Trieste Mental Health Model

In order to be able to speak about community mental health care it is necessary to make radical changes not only the form of psychiatric institutions, but also in their intrinsic characteristics.  In other words, it is not only the asylum which has demonstrated its therapeutic ineffectiveness, but the entire psychiatric paradigm, said Maurizio Constantino who was the operational director and co-ordinator for the Trieste Mental Health Department in Italy during his visit with Professor Suryani. He feels the community mental health in Bali that brought up by Professor Suryani is what the developing country need when the community still play a strong rule. He also doesn’t surprise when the government try to not loose their face in front of the people by building mental health hospital as their castle.


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