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 11/08/09 at 09:02am
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
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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. :/