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Mental Resilience of Our Teenagers

When President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo spoke about superior HR, my research even said, teenagers as Indonesian HR are vulnerable to suicide.

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Nova Riyanti Yusuf
· 7 minutes read
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Caregiver Yuliansyah Yanim (in yellow jacket) holds schizophrenia patient M. Abdul Fahri to calm him from an earlier rage on Wednesday (2/10/2019) at the Istana KSJ mental health center in Ciarnjur, West Java.

When President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo spoke about superior HR, my research even said, teenagers as Indonesian HR are vulnerable to suicide. In fact, suicide can be contagious.

The transmission process is certainly different from the transmission of infectious diseases. Suicide as a very personal decision can still be influenced by social impulses, including imitation. The transmission process is shown by the existence of imitation waves. Romantic literature, for example, often displays examples of suicide for romantic reasons. A very famous example is the work of a novel from Goethe in 1974. Werther, who is a hero in this novel, kills himself after being rejected by the woman he loves. Werther\'s fictional death was imitated by many young people in real life, resulting in the term Werther effect to describe suicide due to romantic imitations.

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