National Press Day 2023, KPAI Hopes Media Presents Child-Friendly Content

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JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) Jasra Putra hopes that conventional and digital press media will provide information and content that is suitable for children to consume and support children's growth and development.

"The biggest hope of parents is together with the press and the work of media friends in providing information that is supportive and feasible for the growth and development of positive children, with literacy weapons, complete capacity, code of ethics and technology at the forefront of mastery of information delivery," said Jasra in a release. commemoration of National Press Day 2023, in Jakarta, Thursday 9 February, quoted from Antara.

Jasra also hopes that media workers will continue to uphold the journalistic code of ethics and present child-friendly media.

He also invited media industry players to present child-friendly content because the future of the nation depends on the content they consume.

"They need future guarantees through information that supports positive growth and development, proper information, and inevitably you are figures for Indonesian children, because they often appear in front of the small screen, on electronic screens, in various forms with children," he said.

His party explained that based on data from the 2022 Indonesian Internet Service Providers Association (APJII), penetration of internet use has reached more than 70 percent of the population of Indonesia and active users are children aged from the age of 5 to 18.

But unfortunately, parental supervision of the content consumed by the child through the device they use is still low.

"When children are at home, parents are more dominant in asking about their world of school than asking what they see today on their device," he said.

Therefore, mainstream media is expected to participate in providing positive content for children in Indonesia.

"We want to encourage the presence of the media as figures, role models, their new parents, to be role models that invite positive participation in filtering all information, although I say it is not easy," he said.