SBS News has released an investigation on an Indonesian pasung centre where the mentally ill are shackled in chains, despite the practice being outlawed in the 1970s.

Mental health research assistant Anto Sugianto, a pasung survivor, is trying to alter Indonesia’s regressive approach to treating mental illness through education.

Mr Sugianto said if people get the right education about mental health and how to deal with mental illness so they can seek the right treatment, there will be no pasung.