Asia's centers for the mentally illlike this one in Indonesia_often seem more punitive than palliati

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• Asia's centers for the mentally ill-like this one
  in Indonesia_often seem more punitive than
  palliative

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Human stain_Patients at the Panti Bina Laras
Cipayung mental health center in east Jakarta are
left to lie on the soiled floor of the latrines
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Exposed_Most of the patients at the center are
naked some are shackled or chained to window bars
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Discarded_A naked, emaciated man curled up on the
floor beside a live chicken and some rotten wood
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Living Hell_A teenage boy locked up with men at
the Cipayung center
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Scarred_Inside the Cipayung facility the air is
thick with flies and the stench of feces
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Wasted_A half-naked elderly man too weak to stand
eats on the floor of the Cipayung facility in
east Jakarta
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Daily Struggle_Inside the female ward of the
Cipayung center. Originally intended for 200
patients, the government-run facility is crammed
with 305 inmates
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Crisis_Chained and naked inmates inside the male
ward of the Cipayung center
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Criminal_Though the number of patients at the
center has nearly doubled since 1996, less than
1 is spent on each person per day
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Damaged_A woman patient at the Cipayung center
reaches breaking point. Almost no other Asian
nation offers less mental health care than
Indonesia