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View all search resultsPsychologists have applauded the government's recent move to create a national suicide registry and to ban shackling people with mental health issues, but they emphasized that more thorough measures are needed to better protect the vulnerable group.
The Health Ministry has pledged to provide mental health treatment and set up a special task force after finding that nearly 20 percent of medical residents nationwide were suffering from depression of varying severity when they took part in a recent survey, almost five times the ministry's estimate for the general population.
An alleged group suicide of a family of four in North Jakarta has garnered nationwide attention and prompted calls for bigger efforts to prevent more cases in the future following increasing cases of suicides in the country.
Moon is not just prohibited by the constitution from seeking reelection, he and his family members may also face the threat of imprisonment after he leaves the presidential Blue House, as his 11 predecessors did.
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