My baby, Ayu (16 months) has become interested in moving pictures presented on television. She will sit down quietly when she watches her favorite cartoon movie, or her favorite advertisement. Perhaps because she still babies she love to see advertisement that presents baby picture on it.As a mother, I'm a little scared if Ayu continuously watches television considering the negative effects I've heard from various media. I have to choose the show that Ayu can watch or can not watch. I have also limited the time allowed for her to watch television. She is still 16 months she is not supposed to watch television more than 2 hours. There are many shows that the local television offered. But unfortunately there are only few good shows for younger viewer like my baby. Most of the television shows present gossip shows, people arguing, people yelling, violence, sarcasm, etc.
However, among many shows on television I can still find the show which was packed with educational elements. One of them is the ‘JALAN SESAMA’ Jalan sesame is a program that was adapted from the series Sesame Street.
Sesame Street uses combinations of animation, puppets, and live actors to stimulate young children's minds, improve their letter and word recognition, basic arithmetic, geometric forms, classification, simple problem solving, and socialization by showing children or people in their everyday lives. Since the show's inception, other instructional goals have been basic life skills, such as how to cross the street safely, proper hygiene, healthy eating habits, and social skills; in addition, real-world situations are taught, such as death, divorce, pregnancy and birth, adoption, and even all of the human emotions such as happiness, love, anger and hatred (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalan_Sesama)
Jalan sesame intended for audiences of children aged 0-6 years who has six aspects of educational objectives, namely: physical, cognitive, emotional, social, aesthetic and moral / spiritual.
Jalan Sesama summarizes stories, songs and music presented in Indonesian language. Each episode consists of; segment of the studio, which introduces a typical doll produced by local production houses and international production, live action movie segment is a brief movie about the culture and lives of Indonesian children and animated segments.
Studio segments of the local production presents 4 leading characters who live in Jalan Sesama street, That is Momon the little monster, Putri, a cheerful little girl, Tantan an adult female orangutan who likes to tell stories and a good cook, and Jabrik one-horned rhinoceros monster with purple plume, which has interesting ideas in solving problems.
