More than 12,800 still shackled in Indonesia

Join us and help end shackling in Indonesia! Having trouble viewing this email? Click here. End Shackling in Indonesia TAKE ACTION Dear friends, Did you know that more than 12,800 people with mental health conditions in Indonesia are shackled — chained to beds, cement blocks, or locked in animal pens, even though the practice was banned in 1977? The stigma and misinformation around mental health, along with the dearth of services, has led to people being shackled in homes or institutions. Once you’re shackled, you can’t move around much and are forced to eat, sleep, urinate, defecate in a tiny space, sometimes for years at a time. Until now. Indonesia’s government has reduced the number of people in chains from 18,800 to 12,800 and conducted community outreach to 16.2 million households to raise awareness and provide mental health services. It’s a start. Now, it’s time to free everyone else. Take action to help us end shackling. Call on Indonesia’s government to end this brutal practice by better monitoring its institutions, including faith healing centers, where people are chained. It’s time to #BreakTheChains and end shackling now! TAKE ACTION Thank you for standing with us! Kriti Sharma, Senior Researcher, Disability Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, @ks7s TAKE ACTION In order to maintain our independence, we accept no money from any government. We rely solely on the generosity of people like you to defend human rights. SUPPORT US

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