Breaking the chains: A film-documentary on mental health and human rights
FREE SCREENING WITH DISCUSSION OF 'BREAKING THE CHAINS'
Breaking the Chains (64 min, Production: Indonesia/UK/Australia/Italy) highlights the unflinching efforts of a local Indonesian organisation fighting a battle for human rights. In Indonesia, as in other countries worldwide, individuals coping with mental health issues are often chained, caged, locked away and held in isolation. In Bahasa Indonesia, both the chains and the practice of binding those with mental illness are called pasung. Members of Komunitas Sehat Jiwah (KSJ) are determined to combat the use of pasung and seek to bring health support and freedom to mental health patients in the remote areas of Cianjur, West Java. KSJ works together with local doctors, health care services, families, communities and former pasung victims to guide communities towards effective and humane treatment. The KSJ volunteers often traverse dangerous roads and walk for hours into the jungle to access isolated families; they are committed to building new approaches to mental health and to eradicating pasung one patient at a time.
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