85% of Indonesians who have access to the internet, use their smartphones to play video games. This makes Indonesia one of the biggest markets for mobile revenue with 120,7 million mobile players, which ranks it among the “Big Six” mobile gaming countries in Southeast Asia. Although limited, the Indonesian Online Game Addiction Questionnaire may also be used for clinical purposes. It may provide an estimate of online game addiction prevalent in a population. The Indonesian Online Game Addiction Questionnaire can also be used as a supporting evidence for establishing an online game addiction diagnosis.
The original criterion of Pathological Gambling used the terms ‘jeopardized’ or ‘loss’ a significant relationship. The term is not very appropriate to Indonesian context as it would make them defensive. As relationship is of the utmost importance in a collective culture, like Indonesia, using such a harsh term would put participants in the defensive. Therefore, we decide to moderate the term as ‘problems with family or friends’. The item is aimed to tap on the problem that often arises due to excessive online game use. Qualitative data showed that sleep deprivation is the strongest indicator of excessive online game use.
Then, the newly developed measure’s psychometric properties will be examined. We will also attempt to construct a cut-off score to provide an estimate of mild addiction and addiction category. The popularity of online rtp slot games in Indonesia can be easily recognised with the events that are made by game companies or internet cafes.
A lack of investment and professionals means that the number of local gaming companies is not growing. In order to score points, using the alphabet tile to form Indonesian words. Scrabble is a word game that can be played by at least 2 players, so this game is also great to be played at home. Indonesian numbers – start with the numbers with the numbers in Indonesian 1-12 game, then learn to count up to 20 with the numbers in Indonesian game. For learning multiples of ten play the numbers in Indonesian game. Arithmetic style games in which you add the Indonesian words for numbers together to choose the correct answer.
We argue that playing online games for more than 4 hours at the frequency of working days is already half of the amount of the standard daily 8 hours working time, thus it can be considered as excessive. This research aims to develop an online game addiction measure to screen for online game addiction cases among Indonesian children and adolescents, as well as for other research purposes. The measure will adopt Pathological Gambling diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV-TR[17] and Griffith’s addiction criteria[19]. We are aware that online game addiction measures have been previously constructed [20]–[22]. But, there have been no previous research that attempt to construct an online game addiction measure that is specific to the context of Indonesian children and adolescents. Cultural context is important to consider as different cultures would have different expressions of psychological problems [23], [24].
The point is not really about winning the game, but is to learn new words and practice spelling as you are playing the game. The Indonesian video game industry contributed about US$1.1 billion to the national economy in 2015, despite only earning a small fraction of the local gaming revenues. Video game piracy is also prevalent across the country, making up the majority of installed games. Females and males almost equally follow Mobile Legends, PUBG Mobile and Free Fire, mostly on YouTube.