TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Chair of the Indonesian Communication Scholars Association (ISKI) in East Java and a communication lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) at Airlangga University, Suko Widodo, sees the recent surge in suicide cases involving adolescents and students as a reflection of increasingly complex psychosocial pressures.
Three suicide cases involving adolescents and students occurred in close succession in several regions of Indonesia recently. East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) reported several students ending their lives, Demak was shocked by an elementary school student’s suicide, and Bandung mourned the death of a student, suspected to be a…