On the tenth of September, a group of teens was caught after having stolen ten thousand dollars from a HSBC branch located in Long Island, the United States. Just one week earlier, another gang of teenagers escaped from the police after stealing two autos in the Big Apple. Local authorities are too worried about this situation of lack of peace and order on the streets. Juvenile crime, an evil afflicting our society, is growing. This kind of crime is caused mainly by one’s problems, family and social environment.
To begin with, juvenile delinquency is a result of personal problems. One of the main factors leading teenagers to get involved in illegal practices is the lack of emotional stability that generates aggressive impulses. This kind of mental illness results in unstable affection. These people often experience negative influences like problems with anger and anger expression. As a result, other people become the object of hate and contempt, and they end up destroying their relationships. For example, in a junior high school there was a female student suffering this mental illness. She enjoyed the company of one of her female classmates; in fact she wanted to spend the whole time with her. However, it so happened that one day the friend refused an invitation from this girl. As a result, the girl could not take it, and became absolutely distant from her friend. Likewise, emotional stability can lead to committing crimes in the form of theft or violence.
Secondly, the family and its situation can be a cause of juvenile crime. The first reason why this problem is rooted at home is that parents fail to provide a good education for their children. These kids cannot distinguish between good and evil; and therefore, they step over the red line between a worthy and a pitiable life even without being aware of it. For example, kids who have not received education regarding alcohol drinking may end up drinking a lot. Since they are under the influence of alcohol, drunkards are likely to commit crimes even without realizing what they are doing. Besides, youth delinquency stems from the need to escape from a hard financial condition experienced by the family. For example, there are boys who grow in homes where often there is nothing to eat. Because of that, these boys will go out to look for something to bite no matters whether the means are licit or not; it is just a matter of survival.
Last but not least, the society in which one lives is a main factor of juvenile crime. Many kids have started to commit crimes because of the influence from friends who are involved in criminal acts. When one is young, friendship is everything. For this reason, if someone is invited by his friend to commit a crime, it would be too difficult for him to refuse. Moreover, it is the desire for social acceptance when one lives in a criminal environment what thrusts teens into the criminal world. Everybody wants to have friends and feel accepted in his environment; that is why it does not matter if crimes have to be committed in order to attain this goal. For example, there are high schools in poor districts where a boy is bullied if is not involved in some kind of crime. The reason for this is that he is seen as lacking braveness and guts. This reason obviously does not make sense to a normal person, but this is how uneducated people who have grown up in a criminal environment think. As a result kids under this pressure are pushed into evil actions.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
The regulation of asking every citizen to have a BPJS
A few years ago the Indonesian Government launched a health insurance program for those citizens who were interested to benefit from it. Recently, a regulation has been passed by the parliament that requires the BPJS for every citizen. Therefore, this health insurance is compulsory now for every citizen. Its implementation started in the beginning of 2014, and by January 1, 2015 every employer is expected to register all his employees in the BPJS. Then, by beginning of 2019 every Indonesian citizen is expected to be part of this health insurance program required by the government. This new regulation brings both advantages and disadvantages for the peoples of Indonesia. Although the new regulation of asking every citizen to have a BPJS helps the poor, it is not a good regulation because it does not provide good salaries for the doctors and nurses, it forces employers to register their employees, and it offers a health service to the poor that is not enough.
It is a fact that the new regulation facilitates the access to health services for people who cannot afford it. In Indonesia there are still many people who have this problem. It is a very sad reality the one of many people who suffer illnesses and cannot receive treatment in the hospitals. Therefore, the BPJS is indeed a noble attempt from the government to solve the problem of the lack of health service for the poor. However, this measure to help the poor to have access to medical services does not overcome its weaknesses. The BPJS unfortunately is not effective yet, and this regulation of asking every citizen to subscribe to it is making bad things worse.
To begin with, this new regulation provides unfair salaries for both doctors and nurses. The budget for the BPJS is determined by the INA-CBG (Indonesia Case Base Groups). This system allocates fixed funds for every specific medical treatment. For example, the budget for every type of CT scan is Rp 250,000. However, there are some types of CT scan that are more expensive than the allotted budget. For example, a heart CT scan is more expensive than a kidney one. Therefore, hospitals will have to pay the difference between the available fund and the real cost. Since the money received by the hospitals is less, then hospitals have to cut the salaries of doctors and nurses. However, that is not fair because doctors and nurses offer a professional work that entails a big deal of pressure and that should be rewarded properly. Beside, doctors spend many years studying, so they need higher incomes to balance the time they have not been getting any income.
Secondly, it is not fair to demand all the employers to register their employees to the BPJS. It is a lack of respect for freedom to force companies to subscribe to the BPJS program because they are free to choose the health insurance that is most suitable for them. If an employer thinks that the health service provided by the BPJS is not good enough, s/he has the right to register his/ her employees in another health insurance that is more suitable for the type of risk the employees are exposed to. For example, if somebody owns a construction company, s/he knows that employees may suffer injuries at a construction site like falling from scaffolding. Therefore, the employer would prefer to register his/her employees in an insurance company like Allianz because this insurance company is specialized in that type of injuries. Now, if the government forces the construction company to also register the employees in the BPJS, the company will have to pay a greater amount of expenses that may reduce the net income of the business and render the business less profitable. Besides, the employer and employees are already contributing to the BPJS by paying their taxes. So, it cannot be said that they do not want to help the poor.
Thirdly, it is not completely fair with the poor people because it does not really take good care of their health. Patients suffering major illnesses will be received in the hospitals and stay in intensive care units if necessary. However, once they recover and can leave the hospital, they will still need to take some medicines that will not be provided by the BPJS anymore. The problem is that those medicines are very expensive, and thus poor people cannot afford them. This is why the BPJS is not truly effective. It does not think in the long run. For example, if a patient is admitted to a hospital because of kidney malfunctioning, s/he will receive treatment in the hospital until the condition improves, but s/he will be left alone afterwards. Besides, it is not possible to get a really good medical service by paying so little. The facilities used cannot be as good because the financial resources are not high. As a result, the poor will get access to a rather low quality health service. Furthermore, the poor people still have to pay. Even though it costs Rp 25,000 per person per month, in the long run it does matter for big families. Since the income of these poor people is too low, they may end up sparing money needed for food in order to get the BPJS. For example, a family was interviewed about the BPJS in a clinic, and the mother said that only the husband and one of the two children have BPJS. The reason why is that they cannot afford the BPJS for four of them. That is why the Government should offer this service for free.
To wrap it up, although the new regulation of asking every Indonesian citizen to have a BPJS has a good aim, to provide health services for the poor, it is not a really effective means to achieve it. This new regulation causes the following problems for the peoples of Indonesia: it does not provide good salaries for the doctors and nurses, it forces employers to register their employees, and it offers an incomplete service to the poor. With the coming of President Joko Widodo, society hopes that this health insurance may become truly effective in serving the poor.
It is a fact that the new regulation facilitates the access to health services for people who cannot afford it. In Indonesia there are still many people who have this problem. It is a very sad reality the one of many people who suffer illnesses and cannot receive treatment in the hospitals. Therefore, the BPJS is indeed a noble attempt from the government to solve the problem of the lack of health service for the poor. However, this measure to help the poor to have access to medical services does not overcome its weaknesses. The BPJS unfortunately is not effective yet, and this regulation of asking every citizen to subscribe to it is making bad things worse.
To begin with, this new regulation provides unfair salaries for both doctors and nurses. The budget for the BPJS is determined by the INA-CBG (Indonesia Case Base Groups). This system allocates fixed funds for every specific medical treatment. For example, the budget for every type of CT scan is Rp 250,000. However, there are some types of CT scan that are more expensive than the allotted budget. For example, a heart CT scan is more expensive than a kidney one. Therefore, hospitals will have to pay the difference between the available fund and the real cost. Since the money received by the hospitals is less, then hospitals have to cut the salaries of doctors and nurses. However, that is not fair because doctors and nurses offer a professional work that entails a big deal of pressure and that should be rewarded properly. Beside, doctors spend many years studying, so they need higher incomes to balance the time they have not been getting any income.
Secondly, it is not fair to demand all the employers to register their employees to the BPJS. It is a lack of respect for freedom to force companies to subscribe to the BPJS program because they are free to choose the health insurance that is most suitable for them. If an employer thinks that the health service provided by the BPJS is not good enough, s/he has the right to register his/ her employees in another health insurance that is more suitable for the type of risk the employees are exposed to. For example, if somebody owns a construction company, s/he knows that employees may suffer injuries at a construction site like falling from scaffolding. Therefore, the employer would prefer to register his/her employees in an insurance company like Allianz because this insurance company is specialized in that type of injuries. Now, if the government forces the construction company to also register the employees in the BPJS, the company will have to pay a greater amount of expenses that may reduce the net income of the business and render the business less profitable. Besides, the employer and employees are already contributing to the BPJS by paying their taxes. So, it cannot be said that they do not want to help the poor.
Thirdly, it is not completely fair with the poor people because it does not really take good care of their health. Patients suffering major illnesses will be received in the hospitals and stay in intensive care units if necessary. However, once they recover and can leave the hospital, they will still need to take some medicines that will not be provided by the BPJS anymore. The problem is that those medicines are very expensive, and thus poor people cannot afford them. This is why the BPJS is not truly effective. It does not think in the long run. For example, if a patient is admitted to a hospital because of kidney malfunctioning, s/he will receive treatment in the hospital until the condition improves, but s/he will be left alone afterwards. Besides, it is not possible to get a really good medical service by paying so little. The facilities used cannot be as good because the financial resources are not high. As a result, the poor will get access to a rather low quality health service. Furthermore, the poor people still have to pay. Even though it costs Rp 25,000 per person per month, in the long run it does matter for big families. Since the income of these poor people is too low, they may end up sparing money needed for food in order to get the BPJS. For example, a family was interviewed about the BPJS in a clinic, and the mother said that only the husband and one of the two children have BPJS. The reason why is that they cannot afford the BPJS for four of them. That is why the Government should offer this service for free.
To wrap it up, although the new regulation of asking every Indonesian citizen to have a BPJS has a good aim, to provide health services for the poor, it is not a really effective means to achieve it. This new regulation causes the following problems for the peoples of Indonesia: it does not provide good salaries for the doctors and nurses, it forces employers to register their employees, and it offers an incomplete service to the poor. With the coming of President Joko Widodo, society hopes that this health insurance may become truly effective in serving the poor.
Does Gender Influence the Teaching?
There are some myths in society regarding the teacher’s gender. Those myths have blocked the access to getting teaching job vacancies for both men and women. Two sample myths are the following. The first is that women are better teachers at kindergarten, and the second is that men are better teachers at senior high school. At the beginning of the twentieth century, competition at work became high. However, that level of competition at work is nothing compared with the one going on nowadays. The advent of the state-of-the-art technology that everybody can enjoy has lead competition to rocket. As a result, employers look for the most qualified people for the needed jobs. Within this search for employees there is a study about which gender is more competent for a specific job. This is applied to education. Schools want to employ the best teachers; and for that objective, they need to know whether one gender is better than the other when it comes to teaching. Women and men can become equally professional teachers, but at the same time each one has unique gifts for making the teaching-learning experience more perfect.
Both, male and female have the same capacity to become excellent teachers. To begin with, women and men teachers have the same intellectual capability. It is a fact that no gender is more intelligent than the other. There are many studies that prove this fact, such as the one conducted by Jim Flynn and Lilia Rossi-Case in 2011. Moreover, male and female teachers have the same capacity to teach professionally; that is, helping the students to learn the subject matter in the most suitable way. Therefore, teachers of both genders can explain in a clear way that is understandable for the students. Also, they know when the students have a difficult time understanding the subject matter, and know how to adjust in these circumstances by explaining from a different perspective and offering new examples. For instance, among the winners of the Pearson Teaching Awards 2014, which is one of the most prestigious teaching awards in the world, we find the team of The King’s School, which is lead by Paula Ferrand and composed of both, women and men. Therefore, the ability to transmit knowledge effectively to the student can be acquired regardless of gender.
Women and men are gifted in its own way to make the teaching-learning experience more effective. First, women are more caring than men by nature, so they can help the students to feel more confident in the class and undertake a risk taking behavior when doing the exercises. Since the time of conception, women feed and comfort their children. This extremely close bound with their children enhances a special capacity for care and love. Therefore, female teachers are capable of exerting this care and love for those students who are undergoing a difficult emotional time. This is important because students are human and need to feel loved and cared for. As an example, in Surabaya there is a boy named Reiner, studying in Saint Louis high school, who had some personal needs, but it was only a female teacher who felt that, and was able to kindly help him find a solution. The male teachers of Reiner could not have imagined what Reiner needed. Secondly, men show more discipline than women, so they are more likely than women to engage the students in the subject matter at hand. It is a fact that men will not feel any remorse of conscience to correct students who misbehave in class. This is the reason why most of the military schools are made up of men. When something wrong is going on in the classroom, male teachers do not hesitate to take tough actions if needed. As a consequence, the students will develop the habit to focus more on the class and avoid disrupting the class, or getting distracted.
Nowadays in the midst of an extremely high competition at the workplace, schools do not need to worry whether the teachers they hire are male or female. Both, women and men can be excellent teachers. Regardless of gender, human beings have the same capacity to attain a high intellectual level. Besides, the skill of transmitting knowledge to students can be attained by both genders. However, there are differences between male and female teachers. Nevertheless, those differences do not make one gender better than the other, but rather unique. Both, men and women have unique gifts that make them special. Therefore, it is needed to have teachers of both genders. As a conclusion, schools should not look at the gender when hiring teachers, but rather at the acquired skills for teaching the given subject matter.
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