Seto Mulyadi: Children in Disasters More Locations Agresif

Head of Child Protection Komnas Seto Mulyadi said, children who lived in the area of disaster more aggressive because they feel the direct impact of these events.

"The children in the disaster because of the location of direct experience, the more aggressive action than the other children," said Seto Mulyadi in Ciputat, South Tangerang City, Banten, on Tuesday (31 / 3).

Mulyadi said that after providing a variety of entertaining games for tens of children victims of the disaster Situ Gintung, Ciputat, in Posko Muhammadyah.

He says, parents should be more concerned with the condition of children in the location of the disaster because they act more emotional and sometimes angry and act like a weird.

Moreover, children victims Situ Gintung reluctant to see the school because of the incident and that there are among their colleagues who died by the flood due to levee overflow Situ Gintung run into hundreds of homes and 98 people died. According to him, the parents do not shed dander disaster due to the emotions of their children because children do not suffer enough to hold it.

He mengibaratkan children that a disaster such as a wound that must be treated. If not treated, the condition will be severe and even emotions will boil over and it is difficult to control. Despite so, Komnas Child Protection, he said, is very concerned with children who are affected so that a cooperation with the Indonesian Association for Psychology provides counseling.

However, his side will continue to monitor the behavior of the children after the disaster and encourage them to want more schools. In a report received by parents, children experience trauma, and they did not want to learn because life was disrupted. To overcome the problem of children, he provides psychiatric therapy, one way to forget the disaster of a game and listen to stories that can entertain them. kompas.com