Tugas GE ccuuuyyy

Entertainment belongs to everyone, no matter what their age. Everybody is served by numerous kinds of entertainment whether they are adult or children. Nowadays, children entertainment is mostly not appropriate with their age. Children are our future, therefore, edutainment for children should be developed on several things. The television, in Indonesia, gives many entertainment programs for adults, but not for children, which nowadays almost have no proper program.TV station should pay more attention to bring some useful edutainment programs for children. In Indonesia, the number one program is tv series or what it is called sinetron, which deliver many violence and unrealistic message to its viewers, including children. The topic is only around love, hatred, and violence around people. These can influence the state of mind of children or even makes them grow faster. Indonesian TV programs used to produce some educational entertainment program, such as ‘Kring Kring Olala’ and ‘Tralala Trilili’. This was a good program to teach and educate children to be discipline and nice. We should produce this kind of programs, so we are not up to cartoons from other countries anymore. Program that show us playful and fun concept to create a kind state of mind for children.

This lack of edutainment for children also happens on music industry. Kind of music nowadays is not meant for children. The market of music makes music producer to arrange music for the biggest population of the listener which is not children. Unfortunately, it is very difficult for us to manage what the children listen. They can choose any music they want to listen with the high technology we had today. We do not have any more song writer for children anymore like Kak Seto or Papa T. Bob. They were a great song writer for kids. Their songs make the children aware on what is wrong for them to do. With easy lyric and note, they are still known until now. But pop music now is replacing those songs. For example, children used to sing ‘Balonku’ or ‘1..2..3..’ but now they sing ‘TTM (Teman Tapi Mesra)’ or ‘Cinta Ini Membunuhku’ which they don’t understand on most of the lyrics mean. We need also development on this side. We need more song writer for children.

Last thing is Icons or characters for children that needed to be improved and developed for the purpose of edutainment for children. These icons can be a good example for children on how to behave. Children always do what their idols do, and if they have made those icons to be their idols they will imitate their good behavior. It will be a good way to educate them by entertainment. In Indonesia, we had ‘Si Unyil’, ‘Susan’, ‘Si Komo’, etc. Kids who love them will do what the icons do. So we could make icons which are a good image of a person that can be a good example for the children.