Mon, 01/11/2010 - 09:05 AM
Despite international pressure, Indonesia is among the few countries
in the world that have neither signed nor ratified the World Health
Organization (WHO) sponsored Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(FCTC). Douglas Bettcher, the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative director,
recently spoke to The Jakarta Post about the importance of the
convention for Indonesia, where around one-third of the country’s total
population of 237 million smoke. Here are some excerpts from the
interview:
