Komnas HAM, Indonesia UNCRPD Written Contribution
private rehabilitation centre, and foundation. These rehab centres operated under the
same type of legal permit -- a foundation -- issued by the Ministry of Law and Human
Rights, accompanied by a permit to deliver social rehabilitation services from the
Provincial Department of Social Affairs;
36. While these institutions have obtained permits for the establishment and implementation
of social rehabilitation services, they have never received supervision and evaluation
from the relevant authorities. On the other hand, the government does not yet have a
standard for privately-managed social rehabilitation centres and its monitoring
mechanism. The site visit conducted by Komnas HAM showed that shackling,
confinement, and various forms of exclusion are still the most common method used for
PMDs in all the visited rehabilitation centres.
37. The commission also found that it was a common practice for male caregivers to handle
women PMDs, doing everything from changing their clothes to bathing them, a practice
that may pose a risk of sexual harassment and violence against female PMDs. Komnas
HAM also came across a rehabilitation centre in which a PMD was locked in a 1 x 2
meter room, where the said individual was expected to eat and use the toilet in the same
place.21
38. Komnas HAM also found supposedly medical procedures performed by rehabilitation
centre staff when PMDs were administered psychotic medications without prior mental
health examinations, all of which should have been carried out by professional medical
personnel.
List of Issues
1. How can the government ensure that all public and private rehabilitation centres
are properly registered?
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