Argh, this is typical of a bad idea. If you want someone to do something, encourage them to do that thing instead of telling them not to do some other thing. If they didn't want to study before this new law isn't going to change their minds.

WATCH OUT BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!!!!!

So from 7 to 9 they will have kids pretending to study? I'm sorry if you told me I had to study between 7 to 9 I would go to my room, turn out the lights and go right to sleep.

Do they issue their 'officers' with swastikas and jackboots, you know, for authenticity?

This story gave me shivers....

try this where I live and there will be riots on the streets. Riots in which I will participate. The governement is rotten and should mind his own business.

2 hours isn't unreasonable. I was a horrible student who never got my homework done and got through HS by the skin of my teeth due to my lousy attention span. But government enforcement is still excessive.

You've got to be kidding.

Soon they'll be packing people into crates and throwing them in a river. Today the Inonesian children tomorrow the world? Freedom, Homework and Bread?

This can only bring about bad things.

That's ridiculous. I feel sorry for those poor kids.

Let's see - large group of kids with 2 hours to spend forced to choose either independent study or "study time" with fellow classmates indoors? Oooh! I know this one! Doesn't it end with them all getting knocked up and/or hooked on D&D?

@Mythgarr;

Best comment ever.

Congratulations, you win at internet.

Obviously this country no longer has any after school sports or music programs… since the grand majority of all performances / football games occur right at 7:00. This isn’t just an attack against kids, it’s an attack against creativity, sportsmanship, and the arts.

Damn thought police >_>.

Seriously tho, this really is a bad bad BAD Idea, how many kids are actually going to study during this time? "Study or you will go to jail." I would probably NOT study outta principle...I forsee riots and protests and many problems ahead...

Holy crap.. what about teaching kids time management?? Maybe they're better at studying from 9-10? Or 5-7? At best you'll raise a generation that can't think for themselves, but more likely a generation that rebels against doing anything they're told!

wonderful picture

If anything this is gonna force grades down

Cram sessions don't work usually as it can overload the brain, and that's all I see here, government enforced cram sessions

I'm curious how they plan on enforcing this. What happens when a sadistic teacher decides to assign "must watch (insert documentary)" for homework? Are they gonna have cops peeping into people's windows looking for lit TV's?
And is indonesia really so fortunate that they don't have more serious crimes to be on guard for??

Fucking Indonesian government...

How is this going to be enforced? Will they have cops sneaking around and peeking in windows, or will it be up to all adults to keep a watch out? I can see them being able to enforce no malls or entertainment centers, but home entertainment? Will they be going door to door and making sure the child is staring at a book?

While this bad. This is not comparable to an Owellian 1984 state. So stop saying it no thought police or nothing. 1984 was about the control of thought. While in this situation they are telling kids what to do they are not forcing them to think in a certain way.

@Werrick
Seconded

@ BrandonL337

Every slope still has its valley at the end. It's just an issue of knowing where that slope will end.

Right on!

7 PM to 9 PM every night... Anatomy and sex ed! Woot!

/Sarcasm

Epic failure in law. It's worthless unless you can enforce it.

Nice way to make the gov't the parent. Let's make a generation of losers that must be told what to do at every point in their life. Brilliant.

This coming from a country with history of oppression in Aech, West Papua and what was East Timor. Don't forget that this is a country that pays only lip-service to freedom.

are they banning tv, radio and playing other games as well, or just picking on the evil video game industry, At least with a video game the kid is interacting some how, not like those kids sitting on their ass watching scoobie doo and eating the junk food their parents are giving them to keep the quiet.

If polititions could campaign in video games I bet all this "STOP THE EVIL VIDEO GAMES" shit would go away.

As far as kids playing violent video games, I would love it if they just made it illegal for kids to play them rather than banning the games, at least then I could play a game I enjoy and if online would not have to listen to a bunch of brats. How about xbox give us an option to report an underage kid online playing a game ment for us adults, then they get their xbox locked up and problem solved, I realy dont care how they do it as long as they dont try to tell me I cant play a game because it cant be sold do to too much sex or violence, yet I can go to war to kill people for real, go rent a hard core porn movie or go to a strip club and that is all ok.
Parents just need to pay attention a little and the government needs to get out or our private lives.

Wow I have friends in highschool who can do their homework in an hour, some in a half hour, sometimes there is no homework.

In addition when I was in elementary school until like fifth grade I was in bed by eight o clock.

That's unfair, and what the hell are they going to do if the child refuse? Don't forget that this is children we are talking about not machines, it's at moments like this i pray that Soviet rises from it's ashes and everyone unleashes nuclear hell. Someone press the restart button!

Great, now the kids are going to secretly play splinter cell and learn how to sneak to each others houses or in malls. Indonesia will have a bunch of splinter cells on their hands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK1rvuuMqbQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRY-XZfLNI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzSKhk_VWg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2D7Q24hvhw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EceKPISeq5g&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XBjX1ciOYQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3JpqS9E-Y&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGbjha9IoM&feature=related

( I apologize if their are to many links. I was trying to make a satirical point about splinter cell kids.)