Atikoh In Front Of Pijar Mothers: Grants Can Attack People's Mental Health

Siti Atikoh, Ganjar Pranowo's wife, in the Indonesian Women's National Coordination Meeting Chooses Ganjar 2023 (doc. Special)

JAKARTA - The wife of the presidential candidate (candidate) Ganjar Pranowo, Siti Atikoh, said that insults or gifts can affect other people's mental health.

This was conveyed by Atikoh while attending the Indonesian Women's National Coordination Meeting (Rakornas) Elect Ganjar (Pijar) 2023 on Saturday, December 16, 2023.

Initially, he said the pair number three would pay attention to physical and mental health.

"If we want to talk about health, maybe we have focused too much on physical health, but not mentally healthy. It's as if if we haven't been depressed, it's a long process," said Atikoh to the Pijar National Coordination Meeting participants at the PDIP DPP Office, Menteng, Central Jakarta.

Atikoh said that by paying attention to mental health, the community would later be happy. So that Ganjar-Mahfud will do several things when both of them take office related to mental health.

Among them, providing psychologists for each school. This program called Atikoh has been implemented in Central Java.

"Every school has a psychologist. Maybe we can work together. One of the programs in Central Java is one student, one client," he said.

This program, continued Atikoh, was implemented in Central Java when her husband served as Governor because he often received complaints.

"If you get bullied, how is the consultation? BK has been more as if it were an investigator for punishment for children, not to assist," he said.

"In fact, it should be normalized when there are school children if they feel uncomfortable or something can be destroyed, it goes to the BK."

"Now go to BK, 'what are you doing?', 'don't do PR, huh?'. It's as if there is such a judgment in schools. Nor is the BK teacher not a psychologist or according to his designation," continued Atikoh.

This then became a problem, especially since mental health has never received attention.

As a result, when a child comes to a psychologist or psychiatrist, he is then labeled with a negative stigma.

In fact, it is not uncommon for the child's parents to become a conversation in their environment.

"Wow, Mrs. A's child goes to a psychiatrist, you know, to a psychologist, you know. What's the problem? Well, we also have to be able to educate all of them. You don't have to be like that because the gigah can affect other people's mental health," he concluded.