You're wearing a chicken instead of a smartphone! Indonesia fights child addiction (5 photos)

Modern children cannot even breathe without a smartphone, as it sometimes seems. The highest level of gadget addiction is in Asia, led by China, Indonesia and Japan. Everyone struggles in their own way, but the mayor of Bandung is the nicest of all.





While China issues decree after decree that children cannot surf the Internet after 10 pm and that they cannot play for more than 3 hours a week, Indonesia has taken a different path. There…

Each student was given a chicken.



It’s good that they give them cages, otherwise parents still have to spend money on cages

Not throughout the country, but in 30 districts of the city of Bandung, the second largest in Indonesia (2.4 million people). The idea is this: a chicken requires constant care, it must be fed, watered, cleaned, and then it will produce eggs. That is, the child will receive rewards and praise from his parents.

And this will distract the child from virtual life to real life. Previously, on the contrary, children had Tamagotchis and electronic animals, but now they need real animals to distract them from their smartphones.





Some are yellow, some are grey, so cute

Chicken is essentially a mini-game in real life. You need to complete daily tasks, at the end you will receive a reward. This is an attempt to show children that dopamine from rewards can also be obtained from achievements in real life.

If a child successfully raises the first chicken, they can keep it or exchange it for three new chickens at the mayor's office. And the one who has the fattest chicken by the end of the year will also receive a bicycle as a gift. That is, you can choose the reward yourself.



And this is also a fight against Ayam warna, painted chickens, we need to talk about them separately

I think that's pretty smart.

The question is how many chickens will die from careless children. Although there will also be a lesson for them, in Japanese schools they generally suggest eating the fish or rabbits that you raised all year during a “life lesson”.

Where do such initiatives come from?

This has not yet affected us in such a frightening format as Asia. But in Indonesia, hundreds of children are admitted to hospital every month due to Internet addiction. That is, they forget to eat and drink regularly, and their nervous system is weakened by constant playing on the phone.



In China, by the way, they decided to introduce a lesson in home economics on how to kill and cook a bird. Hard

That’s why every country is testing its government measures to protect children in a panic. Parents themselves cannot always provide this, since in a rapidly growing economy they are busy working from morning to evening so that their children receive even more benefits and opportunities.