Living in Hell

Two residents at the Bina Lestari healing center in Brebes, Central Java, are chained to a wooden platform bed while an Islamic faith healerstands nearby. At the center, all residents are chained and receive traditional “healing” through prayer, consumption of special drinks, or blessings with holy water. © 2016 Andrea Star Reese/Human Rights Watch

A 24-year-old female resident lies with her wrist and ankle chained to a platform bed at Bina Lestari healing center in Brebes, Central Java. After her husband abandoned her and her 5 year-old daughter to marry someone else, she began to experience depression. © 2012 Andrea Star Reese

Before she died, this woman lived chained at Bina Lestari healing center in Brebes, Central Java for over two years. Her family paid for her platform bed and for the Islamic-based healing she received at the center. © 2011 Andrea Star Reese

A man sings in his cell, his hands moving in an intricate dance, at Pengobatan Alternatif Jasono, a traditional healing center in Cilacap, Central Java.

Haji Hamden, an Islamic faith healer, chants as his assistant Abdul slaps the leg of a shelter resident at Pengobatan Alternatif Nurul Azha, a traditional healing center, in West Java. Abdul also uses a hard implement to massage patients, causingextensive bruising, as part of the daily healing routine. © 2012 Andrea Star Reese

A man is restrained with chains in the male section of Galuh Rehabilitation Center in Bekasi.

A male resident staying in the isolation room at the Galuh Rehabilitation Center in Bekasi has wounds on his arms resulting from being tied.

Men with psychosocial disabilities are locked up in a crowded room in the male section of Galuh Rehabilitation Center in Bekasi.

A woman resident in the female section of Galuh Rehabilitation Center in Bekasi waits for a male staff member to leave before she uses the toilet. Female residents have no privacy and are at heightened risk of sexual violence as the toilets have no doors and male staff oversee the female section, including at night. © 2016 Andrea Star Reese/Human Rights Watch

A woman restrained to her bed in the ward for new residents at Lawang Mental Hospital, East Java.

Fathoni locked his two daughters, who both have psychosocial disabilities, in this goat shed for four years before they eventually received media attention that led to them being rescued and taken to a hospital. © 2016 Andrea Star Reese/Human Rights Watch

A woman with a psychosocial disability living in Panti Laras Dharma Guna, a social care institution in Bengkulu in Sumatra, shows scars from burns she received when she was unable to escape from a fire at her home because her parents had restrained her in wooden stocks. Her family was not home at the time of the fire and she was rescued by a neighbor. © 2014 Kriti Sharma/Human Rights Watch

Ekram, a man with a psychosocial disability, eats his dinner in a shed outside the family home where he has been locked up. His family gives him food and water through a small hole in the shed. © 2016 Andrea Star Reese/Human Rights Watch

Ekram, a man with a psychosocial disability has been held in pasung in the shed next to the family home in Cianjur, West Java. . © 2016 Andrea Star Reese for Human Rights Watch

A woman with a psychosocial disability was locked up in this chicken coop. The coop is located behind the house and is covered in chicken droppings. © 2014 Kriti Sharma/Human Rights Watch

This man lived shackled in stocks, a traditional form of pasung, for nine years in a back room in his family’s home in Cianjur in West Java. When he was released, his legs had atrophied from disuse. © 2011 Andrea Star Reese

Agus, a 26-year-old man with a psychosocial disability, built this sheep shed behind his family home in Cianjur, West Java. When he developed a mental health condition, his parents sold the sheep and locked Agus in the shed for a month because they thought he was possessed by evil spirits. © 2016 Andrea Star Reese/Human Rights Watch

The isolation room for children with psychosocial disabilities in Grogol mental hospital in Jakarta.

Yeni Rosa Damayanti, a disability rights advocate, visits and feeds a young woman at a mental hospital in Jakarta.

A young man with a psychosocial disability is chained in a back room at his family home in Ponorogo, East Java.

A man is chained from the wrist in the male section of Galuh Rehabilitation Center in Bekasi.

Yeni Rosa Damayanti, the head of the Indonesian Mental Health Association, presents a report to the Indonesian House of Representatives in Jakarta.

Newly built isolation rooms in Galuh Rehabilitation Center in Bekasi often house multiple people.

For four years, Carika, a woman with a psychosocial disability, and her sister both lived in this cramped goat shed outside the family home, eating and sleeping amid the stench of goat droppings. © 2011 Andrea Star Reese/Human Rights Watch

A man held in the isolation cell in Bengkulu mental hospital in Sumatra.

A man with a psychosocial disability lies chained at the wrist on a platform bed at the Bina Lestari healing center in Brebes, Central Java. All residents of the healing center are chained. © 2015 Andrea Star Reese for Human Rights Watch © 2015 Andrea Star Reese/Human Rights Watch

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