Cognitive Crisis Narrows Children's Imagination Space
The Indonesia Health Development Center warns that children's imagination and future-mapping abilities are narrowing due to excessive digital consumption. Experts propose a new paradigm that prioritizes 'Cognitive and Future Imaginative Capacity' over traditional academic metrics.
Why it matters
The decline in cognitive development and critical thinking among youth could have long-term implications for national human resource quality.
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The imagination space of Indonesian children seems to be narrowing. When asked about their aspirations, the answers are increasingly uniform, such as content creator, YouTuber, or influencer. For the Indonesia Health Development Center (IHDC), this uniformity is not just a shift in career preferences, but a sign that children's ability to imagine and map out their future is being reduced by the deluge of digital information and the weakness of cognitive development foundations.The health research agency introduced the term 'silent cognitive' burden, which refers to the slowly progressing cognitive burden that is not widely realized, but potentially erodes the quality of Indonesia's human resources in the future.
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