Report: Indonesian Authorities Enforce Video Game Ban During Homework Hours
Report: Indonesian Authorities Enforce Video Game Ban During Homework Hours
May 5, 2008
According to a report on The Impudent Obersver, police in one Indonesian municipality will be enforcing a ban on videos games and TV during a two-hour evening period designated for children to do their homework:The municipality of Bekasi... [is] ordering all students within its jurisdiction to study and do their homework or face legal consequences... The new regulations require students, from elementary school to high school, to study between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. either at home alone or with classmates from the same neighborhood. During study time, no TV or video game will be alowed and students will be banned from going to the mall or entertainment centers.
[Eductaion chief] Kodrato said his adminsitration would empower neighborhood heads and police personnel to enforce the regulations. Bekasi was inspired to institute the new policy after hearing it has been in operation in the municipality of Yogyakanta since 2003.
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Posted 08/29/08 at 10:52am
ZippyDSMlee: feeman:DS is saying goverment would exspand more if the duims get in, he's probly right.
ZippyDSMlee: feeman:DS is saying goverment would exspand more if the duims get in, he's probly right.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:51am
thefremen: LOL, yes, the government has not expanded at all in the last 8 years, especially not for the benefit of corporate entities.
thefremen: LOL, yes, the government has not expanded at all in the last 8 years, especially not for the benefit of corporate entities.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:51am
thefremen: LOL, yes, the government has not expanded at all in the last 8 years, especially not for the benefit of corporate entities.
thefremen: LOL, yes, the government has not expanded at all in the last 8 years, especially not for the benefit of corporate entities.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:43am
ZippyDSMlee: DS- http://forums.theeca.com/showthread.php?p=84679#post84679 In OT BTW
ZippyDSMlee: DS- http://forums.theeca.com/showthread.php?p=84679#post84679 In OT BTW
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:32am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: Sure ^^
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: Sure ^^
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:29am
Dark Sovereign: @zip: Make the thread. I'm just not active there.
Dark Sovereign: @zip: Make the thread. I'm just not active there.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:28am
SimonBob: Heh, I was just playing with the semantics for my own amusement, not trying to shoehorn my way into the argument.
SimonBob: Heh, I was just playing with the semantics for my own amusement, not trying to shoehorn my way into the argument.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:28am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: Iwish you would join the forums so we can have a full conversation these shouts are stifling!
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: Iwish you would join the forums so we can have a full conversation these shouts are stifling!
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:27am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:force them into the wilderness to die off...this is the reality of not taking into account what to do with the lower classes.
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:force them into the wilderness to die off...this is the reality of not taking into account what to do with the lower classes.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:26am
Dark Sovereign: @zip: What are you talking about? Less government means less taxes. Less taxes means more money in average Joe's pockets.
Dark Sovereign: @zip: What are you talking about? Less government means less taxes. Less taxes means more money in average Joe's pockets.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:26am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: you DO realize there were roving shanty towns and poor hosues before social secuty was started? they were hives for poverty and disease,hell with todays "cleanliness" in housing code you can not have them anymore and states will just forc
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: you DO realize there were roving shanty towns and poor hosues before social secuty was started? they were hives for poverty and disease,hell with todays "cleanliness" in housing code you can not have them anymore and states will just forc
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:22am
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: noobies and their silly definition ^_~, but I ahve to ask how do you keep millions off the streets, taking twice as much money from states without social security and health care?
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: noobies and their silly definition ^_~, but I ahve to ask how do you keep millions off the streets, taking twice as much money from states without social security and health care?
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:22am
Dark Sovereign: You ASSUME that not giving tons of handouts to people will make them poor. America itself shows you are wrong.
Dark Sovereign: You ASSUME that not giving tons of handouts to people will make them poor. America itself shows you are wrong.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:17am
Dark Sovereign: Fascism involves ever-expanding government. I just argued the exact opposite.
Dark Sovereign: Fascism involves ever-expanding government. I just argued the exact opposite.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:17am
Dark Sovereign: Do either of you have any idea what "fascism" or totalitarianism IS? You aren't showing it.
Dark Sovereign: Do either of you have any idea what "fascism" or totalitarianism IS? You aren't showing it.
Posted 08/29/08 at 10:08am
SimonBob: "Fascism" is such a dirty word. Call it "totalitarianism" and at least it sounds vaguely reasonable, in a Heinlein-esque way.
SimonBob: "Fascism" is such a dirty word. Call it "totalitarianism" and at least it sounds vaguely reasonable, in a Heinlein-esque way.
Posted 08/29/08 at 09:50am
thefremen: @Dark Soveriegn: You're advocating the values of fascism, you know that right? If we call it conservatism does it smell as sweet
thefremen: @Dark Soveriegn: You're advocating the values of fascism, you know that right? If we call it conservatism does it smell as sweet
Posted 08/29/08 at 08:36am
gamepolitics: When I'm on the West Coast I miss my three-hour head start... wah...
gamepolitics: When I'm on the West Coast I miss my three-hour head start... wah...
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:03pm
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: right? ack sorry for the long windedness ><
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign: right? ack sorry for the long windedness ><
Posted 08/28/08 at 10:02pm
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:infrastructure, let the states deal with the millions on disability or SSI let states run shanty towns for the great unwashed masses and all the death and disease that will ensue, as long as the middle and rich pay less taxes who cares righ
ZippyDSMlee: Dark Sovereign:infrastructure, let the states deal with the millions on disability or SSI let states run shanty towns for the great unwashed masses and all the death and disease that will ensue, as long as the middle and rich pay less taxes who cares righ
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lolz...
Sorry Dennis, there's something funny about that particular word having the typo... :-p
I used to go up, close the door and read comics.
This story gave me shivers....
Soon they'll be packing people into crates and throwing them in a river. Today the Inonesian children tomorrow the world? Freedom, Homework and Bread?
This can only bring about bad things.
And Mythgarr, what's wrong with D&D? :-D
Best comment ever.
Congratulations, you win at internet.
Doesn't say anything about not going to strip joints. :)
study and do their homework or face legal consequences…
Fucking hilarious.
Cram sessions don't work usually as it can overload the brain, and that's all I see here, government enforced cram sessions
Deathnote refernce for the win!
And is indonesia really so fortunate that they don't have more serious crimes to be on guard for??
Yet.. I still didn't do my homework, lol
The only thing that the government can directly control is TV programming, like the Telecom act passed by the US. That can influence a kid's watching habits. But kids will be kids and they can figure out other ways to kill time.
Seconded
Two Words... Slippery Slope
Every slope still has its valley at the end. It's just an issue of knowing where that slope will end.
7 PM to 9 PM every night... Anatomy and sex ed! Woot!
/Sarcasm
Epic failure in law. It's worthless unless you can enforce it.
Nice way to make the gov't the parent. Let's make a generation of losers that must be told what to do at every point in their life. Brilliant.
It may eventually stop but that doesn't mean anything unless you can climb back out
If polititions could campaign in video games I bet all this "STOP THE EVIL VIDEO GAMES" shit would go away.
As far as kids playing violent video games, I would love it if they just made it illegal for kids to play them rather than banning the games, at least then I could play a game I enjoy and if online would not have to listen to a bunch of brats. How about xbox give us an option to report an underage kid online playing a game ment for us adults, then they get their xbox locked up and problem solved, I realy dont care how they do it as long as they dont try to tell me I cant play a game because it cant be sold do to too much sex or violence, yet I can go to war to kill people for real, go rent a hard core porn movie or go to a strip club and that is all ok.
Parents just need to pay attention a little and the government needs to get out or our private lives.
In addition when I was in elementary school until like fifth grade I was in bed by eight o clock.
1) It's never going to be enforced like a hundred other by laws that Indonesia has.
2)If it is, it's because some cop needs a bit of pocket money.
-George Orwell, 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK1rvuuMqbQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRY-XZfLNI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzSKhk_VWg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2D7Q24hvhw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EceKPISeq5g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XBjX1ciOYQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3JpqS9E-Y&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGbjha9IoM&feature=related
( I apologize if their are to many links. I was trying to make a satirical point about splinter cell kids.)
I lol'd at the Death Note comment.
I take a video game... and BAN IT!
okay I'm done now. Seriously though, this is scary... but they'll figure out it's impossible to enforce. Right? god, politicians are stupid in *every* country. :/
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