Similar to the third Pathological Gambling criterion, but this item underlines the role of others in stopping the addiction. The fifth item is about the withdrawal effect of not playing online games, drawn from the fourth criterion of Pathological Gambling[17] or withdrawal[19]. The sixth item is on the conflict caused by playing online games, drawn from the ninth criterion of Pathological Gambling[17] or conflict[19]. However, the items are written with moderation in context to Indonesian school students.

There is even an Internet Cafes Business Association which works side by side with publishers and other game associations. Increase your motivation, engagement and learning speed by playing 30 language learning games. Gamic ideology is not a force to be ignored, argues Zulkarnain. To look at these coded (pun intended) sentiments could reveal a number of ideological constructs, the spread of which is facilitated by contemporary media—such as MMORPGs. The Indonesian demo slot game industry contributed about US$1.1 billion to the national economy in 2015, despite only earning a small fraction of the local gaming revenues.

Has your kids learned everyday objects such as ‘pintu’ or ‘apel’ in Indonesian? Again, incorporate the vocabulary into your sentences whenever possible. Say something like, “Please eat apel” or “Open pintu” – do not worry so much about saying a full sentence in the targeted language. Slowly but surely you can progress into saying full sentences in Indonesian to your kids. Mobile and tablet games for Indonesian – there are several games with audio on our Indonesian for mobile pages, including colors, numbers, phrases, animals, vocabulary. If you come to this site with a mobile device you will be automatically redirected to this page.

According to a report by Limelight Networks, Indonesians spend around 8.54 hours per week gaming, which is slightly higher than the average (8.45 hours per week). Indonesia ranks fourth in this statistic, behind China, Vietnam, and India. The eSports sector in Southeast Asia is developing mainly on account of Indonesia, as 43% of the total number of players in the region are located in Indonesia. Indonesia (officially the Republic of Indonesia) is a country in Southeast Asia.

There are specialized game video platforms in Indonesia like Nimo TV and Cube TV, where players can interact with influencers and sports players. As of 2019, Indonesia also enjoys a GoGames platform that provides content, features and payment services for gamers. Based on the criteria, a clinical sample is drawn from the original validation sample. There are 150 participants (10.15%) that met the criteria from the total of 1,477 participants. Final Words As you can see, the recommended games listed here can be conducted by someone who has no or little knowledge of Indonesian. As you are teaching Indonesian to your kids, you can learn at the same time.

Stop wasting time and money on corporate lessons when you can download our app and start learning. For learning more words in Indonesian, the student can visit our Indonesian vocabulary lists pages, all of which include accompanying audio. Two further vocabulary quizzes (continuing with the same quiz format) for learning new words in Bahsasa Indonesia.

Furthermore, decision on the days per week is based on the idea of a healthy relationship of work and play. We argue that playing online games for more than 4 hours at the frequency of working days is already half of the amount of the standard daily 8 hours working time, thus it can be considered as excessive. This research aims to develop an online game addiction measure to screen for online game addiction cases among Indonesian children and adolescents, as well as for other research purposes. The measure will adopt Pathological Gambling diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV-TR[17] and Griffith’s addiction criteria[19]. We are aware that online game addiction measures have been previously constructed [20]–[22]. But, there have been no previous research that attempt to construct an online game addiction measure that is specific to the context of Indonesian children and adolescents.