Mental Health Indonesia Jakarta Post. Most of the cases that he handles revolve around depression, learning disorder, and other mental issues on teenagers like identity crisis. Refugees stuck in indonesia are experiencing a mental health crisis thousands of refugees travel to indonesia, hoping to make it to australia.
There is a tiny amount of funding dedicated to mental health. Indonesia's mental health legislation has the same issues mentioned above that southeast asia faces as a region. Visiting for the first time in 2011, i realized there was a real gap in the services offered for mental health issues here in bali and jakarta, and across indonesia as a whole.
Differing figures reported by the government indicate that indonesia has about 600 to 800 psychiatrists—half based in java, and half of that 50% practice in jakarta.
Despite all these challenges, efforts to mainstream mental health issues in indonesia’s public policy still show promising signs. The country lacks doctors with only 0.4 doctors per 1,000 population. Educate the public about mental health issues and the various ways to maintain good mental health neutralize and reduce stigma surrounding mental health issues in indonesia provide a sanctuary and supportive community for people with mental health issues Bali is known for its healing services, whether it is yoga, meditation classes or other types of spiritual healing.