After helping Sudaji villagers in north Bali, the head of community sub district Sawan called for mental health help to Suryani Institute. The institute found 750 people suffering for mental health and left untreated in Buleleng regency. Sawan is a subdistrict (kecamatan) in the regency of Buleleng in northern Bali, Indonesia. The district is the most important rice producing area of Bali and employs many local people. There is the beautiful Sekumpul Waterfall, which makes a wonderful trek. In the hills here native hardwoods are interspersed with tall coffee and clove trees, and the fragrant vanilla, used the world over in desserts and cakes, climbs up the trunk of small trees that provide foliage for the cows. But behind that beautiful landscape hide many mentally disorder people that left without any treatment.
“We have to say thank you for the help from the institute that willing to provide a mental health service to our people, and we feel fortunate for that reason”, said Gunawan AP, SE,MSi as the leader of Sawan subdistrict in his office while receiving the Suryani Institute team lead by Professor Luh Ketut Suryani.
The institute team immediately provide service to Bebetin village after the meeting in Sawan subdistrict office. “We are so happy that the leader of the community understand the need of his people without think bureaucracy that most of the time disadvantage the people”, said Professor Suryani during the service in Bebetin village. Some of the patients are children with intelligence disabilities that the families don’t know how the educate the children regardless no information and education provide by Bali’s government.