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Jakarta to begin anti-smoking campaign Monday
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sun, 11/16/2008 11:46 AM | Jakarta
The Jakarta administration and several NGOs will on Monday visit office buildings and public areas throughout the city to campaign against smoking in public, an official announced Sunday.Administration spokesman Purba Hutapea said the campaign would initially introduce managers of the buildings and areas to the law banning smoking and the penalties it entailed.
"We will not hold raids yet. We are only campaigning for the ban," he said as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com.
The Jakarta administration has yet to fully implement a 2005 bylaw on air pollution that regulates smoking in public places. Anyone in violation of the bylaw may face up to six months in jail or a maximum Rp 50 million (US$4,350) fine. (dre)
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John wilfred (not verified) — Mon, 11/17/2008 - 10:52am
the enforcement of the non smoking rules is
1 / the responsibility of the smoke ( who kills others with second had smoke )
2 / the responsibility of ever citizen to first tell off ,and if not successful to report the wrong dowers.
3 / it is the job of the government and every agent thereof .
4 / NGO too why not. they are individuals ,they are often groups of non smokers who have joined together as the smokers in Indonesia ( and other parts of the world too) are very arrogant when you tell then not to smoke even if they are in a public place in front of a non smoking sign .
5 / there are many other issues sure so lets start and tackle this one .
Frightened (not verified) — Mon, 11/17/2008 - 10:09am
Yes, very clearly an election year coming up!
Election fever is manifesting itself in many weird ways, but be careful of setting precedents which cannot be undone after the election has passed.
We now have the common people with the right to arrest / detain anyone, who in their opinion, violate the broad interpretation of the antiporn law, and now the general public are being encouraged to conduct sweeping against anyone who is smoking in public areas.
Oh dear Bpk Suharto, we miss you and wish you were still in power to stop this madness.
David K. (not verified) — Mon, 11/17/2008 - 3:01am
Hehehe...the true dangers of smoking huh? There are so many other problems in the world right now that smoking seems almost inconsequentual.
1. Rising trend of hard line islamist imposing thier will and supposed way of life taken from thier holy scriptures on others. Where it's basically them taking parts of thier scripture to fit thier twisted view on life.
2. Higher levels of poverty
3. Higher levels of malnutrition and starvation.
4. Lack of proper education for future generations.
5. Corruption
6. Nepotism
7. Widespread Drug abuse
8. Pedophilia, Rape, prostitution.
9. NGO's pushing for the disintegration of Indonesia so foriegn interests can carve up the natural resources of Indonesia.
10. last but maybe not least for people living in jakarta, the yearly fear of flooding.
Think so many other things will destroy us before smoking will. But as I said before, allowing NGOs to enforce the law is allowing anyone to enforce laws as they deem fit. I for one am sad that so called democracy and all it's ideals have been twisted in such a manner.
Nairdah (not verified) — Sun, 11/16/2008 - 8:22pm
Isn't there something bizarre going on here? NGO's doing the job of enforcing the law because the law enforcers have singularly failed to do so?
Meanwhile, the very same government, Jakarta City administration, in league with the Central GOvernment, is raking in millions from not only condoning but promoting advertising of cigarettes. Double standards? Why not use the revenue from all those ugly cigarette billboards to employ law enforcers that will do their job? (sack the ones that don't)
Better still, why not pull the bill boards down and get serious about protecting peoples health from the impacts of tobacco smoke and smoking. NGO's would be better (self)employed to lobby Central Government to sign the WHO Convention on Tobacco and to press governments at all levels to get real about protecting the health of Indonesian citizens from tobacco.
Concerned (not verified) — Sun, 11/16/2008 - 3:56pm
Lets look at the real air pollution issues in Jakarta..Poorly maintained public buses beltching smoke and smoky two stroke Baja. These are more of an issue than public cigarette smoke. Start by fining and removing these poorly maintained vehicles from the road. Then concentrate on smoking in public buildings. To stop an individual smoking in public is easy, addressing the real pollution issues takes strong government. Poor show on the police and local govt for taking an easy option with little or no concerns regard for our health.
David K. (not verified) — Sun, 11/16/2008 - 12:20pm
Yay, I can't wait till a bunch of NGO people run into my office, and explain to me why I can't smoke in my office, (Which I don't, but i don't need them to do it). If you do show up it should be a great waste of time. I'll probably throw your ass out because I do not condone non governmental organizations, or any organization that we call NGO's who are funded by dubious sources.
Public enforcement of rules and regulations!!! This should be fun, maybe I can go outside, find my very own law that is not enforced and enforce it myself. Thank you for teaching me.