This is how Finland is the happiest country in the world, can Indonesia do this? Everyone’s page

HELSINKI, KOMPAS.com – Finland is known as a country whose food has a mild taste and winters are long and extreme.

Finns are usually quiet, they tend to be melancholic and they do not like the center of attention of many people.

However, who would have thought that this country, which is also famous for its Nokia mobile phones, has been named the happiest country in the world four times in a row?

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Yes, Finland’s repeat successes are the happiest country in the world, helping them change their global reputation and increase tourism and business.

Release the news AFP On Saturday (3/20/2021), here are the keys to making Finland the happiest country in the world.

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1. World-class public facilities, full trust in the government

Finland has advantages in world-class public facilities, low crime rates, moderate social inequality, and high trust in the government.

“The basics are very good here. Nobody lives on the streets, we have unemployment, but health services work, mostly like this,” Ritta Matilainen, a flower seller, told AFP.

Finland’s long, dark winters have been blamed for high rates of alcohol addiction and suicide.

However, over the past 10 years, public health facilities have helped greatly reduce the number of cases by more than half.

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2. Be natural, both in food and landscape

His bland Finnish cuisine and habitual appearance have been derided as something Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi endured while in office and visiting there, as well as Jacques Chirac when he was in charge of France.

However, restaurateurs and product manufacturers are now praising the simplicity and natural ingredients of Finnish cuisine.

According to them, this is the key of this northern European country to prosperity.

Another key to Finnish happiness is to get out there and immediately enjoy the forest, thousands of lakes, traditional hot springs and saunas.

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Finland has also appointed an “ambassador of happiness” who is tasked with showing visitors the secrets of well-being there.

In early 2020, tourism in Lapland in northern Finland reached record levels and attracted more direct investment projects than any other region in the Nordic countries.

Then, when the pandemic shut down the tourism sector, destination managers offered virtual tours so that foreign tourists could enjoy Finland’s clean nature from afar.

“Although people today cannot travel, you can dream of Finland and the happiness of a true relationship with nature, where you can really relax,” said Paavo Virkkunen, head of the Finnish Promotion Service at Business Finland. AFP.

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3. Society has little stress, but …

Finland’s dominance over the past four years as the happiest country in the world has also left a problem.

Joel Willans, a longtime Finnish resident, said that a low-stress society has actually lowered Finnish tolerance when something goes wrong.

Willans is a British digital marketer and creator of the Very Finnish Problems social media page, living in Finland since the early 2000s.

“They could be very disadvantaged,” he said. “Your bubble of happiness is easily punctured when things don’t go perfectly.”

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4. Where is Indonesia positioned?

Annual report titled World Report on Happiness which crowned Finland the happiest country in the world, premiered on Friday (3/19/2021).

Researchers are behind World Report on Happiness He used Gallup’s analytical method and asked people from 149 countries to rate their own happiness.

When compiling the report, the researchers also considered other indicators such as GDP, social support, personal freedom, and the level of corruption in each country.

These indicators have been averaged over the last three years from 2018 to 2020.

WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT List of the happiest countries in the World Happiness Report released on Friday (3/19/2021).

After Finland, the happiest countries in the world were Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, and the Netherlands, respectively.

Indonesia is ranked 82nd on the list. Meanwhile, Afghanistan is at the bottom of the list and has been named the unhappy country in the world this year.

The researchers also compared the 2021 data with the previous year’s averages to measure the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As a result, they found a significantly higher frequency of negative emotions in more than a third of the countries.

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