Disability Indonesia

Indonesia Spits on Liberty’s Face by Treating Psychosocial Disabilities with Shackles

Introduction

Right of the disables are first designed under Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to safeguard that the disables can be protected equally in order to be able to savour life to the fullest as others who are not. The convention acknowledges those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others as the disables. It tries to spread international understanding on the rights of the disables and elevate them to get the same opportunities as others. Having a disability, therefore,

Among them are being tied to solid object –simply imagine tying your dog into a pole, disciplining them with violence, discrimination, abandonment, and various hatred, whether its physical or verbal, towards the persons. Among them, the most serious and inhumane practice are putting them in chain against their will. Until today, at least 18.800 people are still tied down in torture. Government are reacting on it pretty slow, at its most, they only do campaign named “Indonesia Bebas Pemasungan”, both in 1977 and 2014, but mainly the progress are slow and painful. A country of 250 million people, Indonesia has only 600 to 800 psychiatrists—one for every 300,000 to 400,000 people—and 48 mental hospitals, more than half in just 4 of Indonesia’s 34 provinces. Thus, it is safe to say that Indonesians are still in an ultimate lack of understanding, consisting of national acceptance to put mentally disabled people in

In cases where people are diagnosed completely unable to make those decisions, where the illness or disability has decapitate their consciousness as a whole, then it should be through series of legal and medical consideration before even think to put them in chains. For this to happen, shoulder by shoulder approach and intertwined understanding between government, society, legal institutions and nongovernmental organization is paramount. Organization that empowers them should always exist, and it should be formed not only by people with disabilities, especially in advocating decision on, in and over their welfare. It should be always kept in mind that eliminating people’s freedom against their will when they commit no crime is a magnanimous insult to the liberty. Worse more if the shackling practice or forced institutionalization does not make them any better than suffer