Traditional video games strengthen households, protect tradition: Tan

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Deputy Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection Veronica Tan emphasised that conventional video games not solely protect cultural heritage but additionally nurture youngsters’s creativity and strengthen household bonds.

“These traditional games, beyond preserving culture, also foster family connection through play, interaction, conversation, and quality time together,” Tan mentioned whereas attending the INACRAFT 2025 exhibition in Jakarta on Friday.

During her go to, the deputy minister invited moms, youngsters, and households to the ministry’s sales space to participate in varied video games.

The sales space, held in collaboration with the Indonesian Traditional Games and Sports Committee (KPOTI), featured a variety of academic and interactive actions designed to reintroduce conventional video games as a method to fulfill youngsters’s proper to leisure and play.

Tan expressed hope that the initiative would function a tangible demonstration of the Ministry’s dedication to integrating native recreation traditions into the every day lives of Indonesian youngsters and households, whereas additionally reinforcing household ties by way of shared experiences.

“At the Ministry’s booth at INACRAFT, we offer many traditional games to play—engklek, congklak, stilts, spinning tops, marbles, and more. These are wonderful ways to engage with children,” she mentioned.

The INACRAFT 2025 exhibition runs from October 1–5, 2025, on the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC).

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