It’s been 2 days I am home. I’ve got a terrible flu (no, it is not avian flu) that forces me to stay home for rests. Being home during the weekday for two days really bores me to death. Not only that I am too weak to do housework but also I can not connect to the internet (read: outside world) until Aco is back -- he's got a pcmcia. It is ridiculous knowing the fact that Kabelvision’s (tv cable and internet broadband provider) head office is just less than 1 km away from our house! When we first moved in, Aco and I visited the office to apply for the connection, but they said no plan to extend the cable to our neighborhood. We then applied for the second time last month, together with our 20ish neighbors, expecting that 20 connections would be more interesting for them to invest. However til now, no news whatsoever.
So, I ended up watching local television. Most of the programs are gossips, criminal news, quizzes and what-so-called “sinetron” (mini series drama). This is just a brief statistic from 11 local channels from 7am – 5pm on Wednesday:
- Gossip show: 23 programs, average duration: 30 minutes, prime time: 7-9am, 11am-1pm, 2-4pm.
- Criminal news: 14 programs, duration: 30 minutes, prime time: midday
- Sinetron : too many to count, duration: 30-60 minutes, mostly morning and afternoon. (more in the evening, though)
I believe most Indonesian housewives are fully-engaged with this black-box during the day. If I were a housewife, I would probably spend most of my time at home watching TV while I was cleaning, washing, cooking, and ironing. It is very easy to get engaged, you just need a remote control and a TV (of course). In my opinion, TV is the most perfect media to educate people, especially housewives. With good programs-such as in Discovery, Animal Planet or National Geographic, TV can make the greatest change ever in human life. The power of knowledge and experience shared will give a multiplier effects to the children. They can gain knowledge from their well-educated mom. In the long run (borrowing from Aco's term), good quality human resources are simply there at the market. Instead of launching BOS ("bantuan operasional sekolah" -- school assistance aid) that needs to be advertised hugely in 2-full-page newspaper to justify the achievement! Get awake, minister!
1 comment:
kak anna, mengerikan memang itu acara televisi. tidak di Indonesia, tidak di Jepang. Saya sendiri memilih jarang nonton. Biasanya saya hanya menyalakan tepat ketika ada tayangan perkiraan cuaca : supaya tahu besok bisa menjemur plus jalan-jalan sama anak anak, atau mesti mendekam dalam rumah. Eh, ternyata, pekerjaan rumah tidak juga bisa selesai. Bukan karena tidak sempat nonton. Tapi memang MEMILIH untuk tidak. Saya juga sering bilang sama anak-anak, jangan sukan nonton acara tipi. Tidak ada orang jadi pintar karena banyak nonton tipi. Kalau mau nonton, sekalian sewa saja dvd yang memang bagus.
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