• Save Children from the Bad Impact of TV

    20 May 2015, 10:45 WIB

    JAKARTA – The information around the world can be obtained from the media, one is through the TV as most accessible electronic media. So that, it is natural if people tend to rely on TV because watching TV can be done by any age even through the gadget with streaming. Moreover, TV is not only informative but also entertaining.

    However, TV shows can be dangerous for children because they have power to be imitated by children.

    For Wijaya Kusuma, Director of Legal, Corsec and Network of iNews TV, the role of parents is so important in assisting children when watching TV so that children are not easily influenced by TV shows.

    "It is undeniable that TV also has a negative impact then the parents take full responsibility to keep their children from watching unsuitable programs for them," he said at the Media Literacy in Asekma Don Bosco, East Jakarta (19/05). To the student who attended the event, he also warned that as a teenager, they must be good at sorting out the proper TV shows as well as contribute to keeping children in their family.

    An example is a cartoon show that has both negative and positive impact. Children still needed guidance when watching cartoons because there is some cartoons present violence. However, there are also cartoon that has a positive value such as upin ipin which showing the differences of race and religious tolerance.

    Wijaya Kusuma also describes healthy ways for adults or parents to keep children in order not to get the negative impact of TV shows, including the distance of watching tv as far as the eye with 6x tv diagonal, limiting time for watching a maximum of two hours, choosing the event according to their ages, providing an understanding of the show that aired on TV and giving the right schedule to watch like on a holiday.

    (Gaby Oksavira)