A man with a mental health condition with his hands shackled speaking with his mother in a locked room at his home in Labuhan Haji in Southern Aceh province. - While not unique to Indonesia, padlocks, shackles and chains are frequently used to cover for a lack of proper mental health provision in the world's fourth most-populous nation. - AFP
POLEWALI (Indonesia), Oct 6 (AFP)L Locked up all day in a tiny, squalid hut with barely enough space to lie down, Rauf is a prisoner to his mental health issues and carers whose only way of coping is to shut him away.
While not unique to Indonesia, padlocks, shackles and chains are frequently used to cover for a lack of proper mental health provision in the world's fourth most-populous nation.
