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        "msgid": "expert-financial-literacy-from-a-young-age-can-prevent-suicide-1789045446",
        "date": "2026-09-10 19:20:54",
        "title": "Expert: Financial Literacy from a Young Age Can Prevent Suicide",
        "author": "",
        "source": "CNBC",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "Mental health researcher Dr Sandersan Onie suggests that implementing financial literacy programmes for children could serve as a preventative measure against suicide. The expert highlights that financial distress, particularly involving online loans and gambling, is a significant social risk factor that requires broader social interventions beyond psychological care.",
        "content": "<p>Financial literacy is cited as a potential component in suicide\nprevention efforts. Mental health researcher Dr Sandersan Onie,\nBPsychSci (Hons), Ph.D, stated that financial problems are a social\nfactor that must be addressed in suicide prevention strategies. He noted\nthat in several countries, suicide prevention interventions include\nproviding financial literacy from childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn various countries, one of the suicide prevention interventions is\ntraining young children in financial literacy\u2014how to manage finances.\nThis ensures that in the future, they do not become trapped in online\nloans or even online gambling,\u201d said Sanderslag during a Media Briefing\nfor World Suicide Prevention Day at the Ministry of Health, Jakarta, on\nWednesday (9\/9\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Sandersan emphasised that prevention efforts should not only begin\nwhen an individual is already in a state of crisis or experiencing\nsuicidal ideation. A broader approach is required to create social\nconditions that reduce risk factors before a person reaches that\npoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must create a country where people do not even consider\ncommitting suicide. That is the current global approach,\u201d he\nremarked.<\/p>\n<p>Sandersan explained that suicide prevention does not end with\npsychological or psychiatric services. Living conditions and the\nsurrounding environment also play a vital role.<\/p>\n<p>Several social factors that need to be addressed include poverty and\ndebt, unemployment and job loss, housing issues, abuse and violence,\ndiscrimination and stigma, social isolation, conflict, disasters and\ndisplacement, as well as environments related to alcohol and\ngambling.<\/p>\n<p>Psychologist Annelia Sari Sani also stated that debt issues,\nincluding online loans (pinjol), are frequently encountered in crisis\nassistance services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not uncommon to find cases where individuals contemplate\nsuicide because they are trapped by online loans. It happens quite\nfrequently,\u201d said Anne.<\/p>\n<p>In such circumstances, Anne continued, the problems faced do not\nalways require purely psychological intervention. Social assistance may\nalso be necessary because the root of the problem is linked to financial\nhardship.<\/p>",
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