Month: April 2011

After helping Sudaji villagers in north Bali, the head of community sub district Sawan called for mental health help to Suryani Institute. The institute found 750 people suffering for mental health and left untreated in Buleleng regency. Sawan is a subdistrict (kecamatan) in the regency of Buleleng in northern Bali, Indonesia. The district is the most important rice producing area of Bali and employs many local people. There is the beautiful Sekumpul Waterfall, which makes a wonderful trek. In the hills here native hardwoods are interspersed with tall coffee and clove trees, and the fragrant vanilla, used the world over in desserts and cakes, climbs up the trunk of small trees that provide foliage for the cows. But behind that beautiful landscape hide many mentally disorder people that left without any treatment.

“We have to say thank you for the help from the institute that willing to provide a mental health service to our people, and we feel fortunate for that reason”, said Gunawan AP, SE,MSi as the leader of Sawan subdistrict in his office while receiving the Suryani Institute team lead by Professor Luh Ketut Suryani.

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Around 9000 people in the paradise island, Bali, suffering for chronic mental disorders, but the government still stand still without any changes in solving the problem. The institute still has to go door by door to visit the patients and distribute their help and donation from outside,  because the doctors and the nurses at the health centers doesn’t want to help these patients. They said they are busy and they don’t know how to handle mental disorders.

“It’s kind of strange to distribute more donation from outside the country rather than from our own people, although the  island awash with tourist dollars but no money can’t be set aside for mental health”, said Professor Luh Ketut Suryani during her visit to Rendang, Karangasem. The team has to deal with the rainy weather, but the heart to help is bigger than the soft gentle kiss from the sky.

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Faculty of Psychology Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya was established in Surabaya on December 2, 1997. The first Dean of the Faculty of Psychology chaired by Prof. W.F. Maramis, SpKJ. The faculty position themselves as agents of change and center of excellence that helps individuals and communities to address these changes through socio-clinical approach and socio-industrial. They have a mission to make them self as the scientist-practitioner faculty, which apply experiential learning as a method of approach in their education process. For those reasons the faculty brings their student to visit Suryani Institute for Mental Health in Bali.

“Once John F Kennedy said ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country, I help the patients because  nobody help them and they’ve been neglected for many years by the government”, said Professor Luh Ketut Suryani when she received the group of 40 students and 2 lecturers from  Faculty of Psychology Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya as the student ask about the fund to run the activities of the institute and the sense of community for mental health in Bali.

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