Category: Mental Health Project

The Balinese perspective provides a compelling contrast to many western people with profound implications for the maintenance of individual and collective well-being and the resolution of imbalances in western societies. In Bali, where the arts are important primary or secondary activities, can help to feel connected to how the Balinese approach daily life at work and relaxation, socially, organizationally, and ritually, while continuing to deepen and explore and embody for Consciousness, Culture, and sense of Community.

“Western education and thinking tends to emphasize the rational mind, categorization, analyzing, splitting, and prominent elements in the foreground of our awareness”, said David Osgood Ed.D, M.P.H as he explained the reason bringing University of Vermont students to Bali.

 

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For many West Australians, Bali is a holiday paradise. But on the idyllic island, and across the Indonesian archipelago, up to 26,000 mentally ill people are kept in cages or stocks. Now, a local group is working hard to change things — with some early success, as Kim Macdonald from the Weekend West a newspaper for Western Australia reports. The dire state of Bali’s mental health system, can be blamed on decades of neglect by  authorities who do not understand the illness.

“Bali does not see mental health as a priority,” says Professor Luh Ketut Suryani as she explained to Kim that the governor gave some recognition to the problem in 2009 when he pledged $1 billion rupiah to the Suryani Institute, but cut it by 90 per cent the following year.

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As the mental health budget from Bali’s governor being cut 90%, the Suryani Institute has to work hard to keep on giving their passion in helping the abandon one. There are around 9000 thousand people are still can not get any continuing treatment from government on their mental health condition. And there are around 300 of them were left in restrained.

“The mental health system in the island only want to use Bangli Hospital as the main solution without want to provide an integrated and continuing care in the community”, said Professor Luh Ketut Suryani during her field trip to Buleleng. “The treatment for mentally ill patient is not finish after they discharge from the hospital, but it’s just a start as a long term care need to be created for this patient”, add Suryani as she sees the result of the institute works by providing continuing care to the patient in Buleleng.

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“At the moment, we can not provide medication as it needed by the patient because of our strict regulation in Australia, but we think by providing netbooks as the tool for delivering the information and  reporting progress of the patients to donor or others will help also from the other side”, said Cliff Bens as the managing director of Total Coolant Management Solutions Australia during his visit to see Professor Luh Ketut Suryani in Bali.

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