'More sex education needed'

'More sex education needed'

JAKARTA: Director/photographer Jay Subijakto noted that there had not been enough domestic campaigns informing the public about the danger of AIDS.

"Such campaigns should be more intense, especially when dealing with teenagers. Many of them get drunk and have sex without taking any preventive measures. They should be warned that they could get the deadly disease," he asserted.

Many people, he said, remain clueless about AIDS.

The lack of any campaign drive was related to the lack of frankness in our society, Jay added.

"Like drugs, for example. Whenever there is a celebrity who dies from a drugs overdose, they are usually said to have died of a disease," he said.

"Their deaths should become a lesson for us all. In the United States for example, there are huge billboards with pictures of idols such as Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison, with the message that these people ended up destroying their lives, so don't follow them." -- JP