A mayor of an Indonesian city announced yesterday, Monday, the success of a campaign aimed at keeping school children away from smartphones, by keeping them busy raising chickens. Oded Daniel, the mayor of Bandung, launched the "Chicken Breeding" program, donating 2,000 small chickens to schoolchildren last November.
"I noticed that the chicks that the school children raised have grown up well, as their weight now ranges between two kilograms and two kilograms," Oded said on a local radio station. He explained that he had offered to buy chicken again for 200,000 rupees ($ 14) each.
Oded did not clarify whether the children had stopped playing games on the Internet, or watching videos on YouTube on their smartphones.
The city's chief of agricultural affairs, Jin Jin Jinandagar, said 10,000 chickens will be distributed to schoolchildren for free this year.