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Community psychiatry as community base treatment is defined by mixed systems of care for patients with severe and persistent mental disorders, which the focus of the initial movement 50 years ago was de-institutionalization, prevention, least restrictive options for care, and transformation of large public hospitals into multi-service regional centers. Unfortunately this situation was not applied to Indonesian and Bali’s mental health system. There are 300 people still left enchained in Bali.

“A while ago I saw the story about your work on Dateline in Australia and was deeply moved by the amazing work you do for the mentally ill in Bali”, said Cameron Herweynen, a Melbourne based international award winning Documentary and Travel photographer during his visit to Professor Luh Ketut Suryani.

 

 

 

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Over 7000 people in Bali suffer from serious chronic mental illnesses, but are not reported (and naturally not treated). For various reasons, financial, social, political, educational, or simply shame, their families have been reluctant to seek help, while the few who did never received any. Therefore, as a last resort, these families may either abandon their mentally ill relatives in the jungle (hoping they will die or just forever disappear) or keep them under restraints, chained or inside makeshift cages.

“We feel Professor Luh Ketut Suryani’s work in community is indispensable and hugely important, we think it helps to improve the human rights of mentally ill patients, which is urgently needed all over the world”, said Laurent Delhomme as the editor and producer at YemaYa production that produced and distributed numerous films on French and international channels during his visit with Professor Suryani to community.

 

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