Indonesian kids given pets to distract them from smartphones

2,000 four-day-old chicks will be handed out to pupils at elementary, junior high schools. FMTNews Indonesian Bandung

BANDUNG: Officials in one Indonesian city have hatched a plan to wean children off smartphones – by giving them their own fluffy chicks to raise.

Students must feed their new pets before and after school and can keep them at home or on school premises if they don’t have space in their backyard. At a ribbon-cutting held Thursday, a dozen chicks in cages were distributed with a sign that read: “Please take good care of me”.But the project isn’t just about curbing schoolkids’ phone habits, he said – it is also part of a national plan to broaden pupils’ education launched by President Joko Widodo.

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