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Comments on other issues: Malls violate smoking bylaw
Buying time: People shop during a sale at a shopping mall in Senayan, South Jakarta
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Buying time: People shop during a sale at a shopping mall in Senayan, South Jakarta. Discounts were offered in celebration of Jakartaâs 488th anniversary on June 22.(JP/Awo) (JP/Awo)
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span class="inline inline-center">Buying time: People shop during a sale at a shopping mall in Senayan, South Jakarta. Discounts were offered in celebration of Jakarta's 488th anniversary on June 22.(JP/Awo)
Aug. 29, p1
The Jakarta Environmental Management Agency (BPHLD) has disclosed that 90 percent of malls and shopping centers that it inspected in Jakarta were in violation of Gubernatorial Regulation No. 88/2010 on no-smoking areas.
The regulation stipulates that public places, health centers, education centers, playgrounds, public transportation and houses of worship must be free of cigarette smoke.
'Ninety percent of malls and shopping centers we inspected violated the bylaw,' the agency head Gamal Sinurat said on Friday, adding that they were now being monitored by the agency. 'If they still violate it, we will hand out harsher sanctions,' he said.
Your comments:
The smoking ban is totally misplaced. If there is a smoking lounge, it has clear signs, smokers can be left alone there. The lady with her child will choose a place where smoking is not allowed, the smoker will choose a place where it is allowed. That is tolerance.
Why bring a 1.5-month-old baby out in any case? Does she know about the air pollution in Central Jakarta? Standing behind a Metromini when it starts up equals three packs of cigarettes in 30 seconds.
Realistic regulation, responsible parents, mutual respect, why are these concepts so alien to Indonesian society?
Whoever wants to close down smoking lounges is no better than an FPI member wanting to close everything down.
OB
It is called a total lack of respect for the law, and most importantly decades of non-enforcement of laws.
Will
Since money speaks louder than the law, you can capitalize on the situation by boycotting the premises. Over 38,000 signed the petition, including their families this amounts to over 100,000 people, a huge number for any business
Hendrizal
Hail the mother for speaking the truth out loud and standing up with dignity on behalf of everyone who needs a better atmosphere!
Nidya Widyanto
