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Locks, chains: coronavirus puts Indonesia's mentally ill back in shackles

While not unique to Indonesia, padlocks, shackles and chains are frequently used to cover for a lack of proper mental health provision. [AFP]

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.

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