학술논문
Evaluating the Indonesia Free Pasung Movement: Understanding continuing use of restraint of the mentally ill in rural Java.
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Article
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Subject
*MENTAL illness treatment
*MENTAL health laws
*EVALUATION of human services programs
*HUMAN rights
*HEALTH services accessibility
*RESEARCH methodology
*LIBERTY
*INTERVIEWING
*QUALITATIVE research
*RESTRAINT of patients
*AGING
*DESPAIR
*GOVERNMENT policy
*RESEARCH funding
*PUBLIC officers
*RURAL population
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ISSN
1363-4615
Abstract
Forcible restraint and confinement of persons suffering from mental illness occurs throughout the world, including in Indonesia. Since 2010, when Gerakan Bebas Pasung (GBP) or the Indonesian Freedom from Forcible Restraint (Pasung) of Mentally Ill Persons movement was launched, national policy has been published to eradicate Pasung in Indonesia by improving the mental healthcare system. This article analyses this policy, specifically the National Mental Health Legislation (2014) and the Ministry of Health Regulation Tackling Forcible Restraint of People with Mental Illness (2017), and evaluates their current state of implementation through a local, in-depth case study. Using mental health institution mapping, two sets of semi-structured qualitative interviews with government officials and healthcare workers, and participant observation in a facility practicing Pasung, we identify the extent to which the 2017 regulation has been implemented in Winong village and discuss current efforts and persistent obstacles to eradicating Pasung. We suggest that despite reforms and the new treatment facility in our case study, the continuing use of Pasung is due to a combination of access to care issues and a widely held explanatory model of mental illness characterized by strong curative beliefs that, when disappointed, lead to a sense of threat and hopelessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]