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Text your say: Smoking ban in Jakarta still neglected
Environmental oversight: Several supervising staff of the Jakarta Environmental Management Agency (BPHLD) inspect no smoking areas in a shopping mall in Cilandak, South Jakarta
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Environmental oversight: Several supervising staff of the Jakarta Environmental Management Agency (BPHLD) inspect no smoking areas in a shopping mall in Cilandak, South Jakarta. The agency has threatened to impose sanctions on shopping mall management ignoring the smoking ban bylaw.(JP/Awo) (BPHLD) inspect no smoking areas in a shopping mall in Cilandak, South Jakarta. The agency has threatened to impose sanctions on shopping mall management ignoring the smoking ban bylaw.(JP/Awo)
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span class="inline inline-center">Environmental oversight: Several supervising staff of the Jakarta Environmental Management Agency (BPHLD) inspect no smoking areas in a shopping mall in Cilandak, South Jakarta. The agency has threatened to impose sanctions on shopping mall management ignoring the smoking ban bylaw.(JP/Awo)
Your comments on a resident filing a complaint with Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama over a tenant of a shopping mall allowing customers to smoke inside the building despite a gubernatorial regulation that bans smoking in public places:
I think that most malls I've been to have violated this regulation somehow and it's wrong. Some places keep a separate closed off area for smokers and while this doesn't disturb other mall visitors, this is still a violation. Ahok must do something about these violations.
Amrita Bakhtani
Send in vigilantes, armed with spray guns and water pistols. Their mission: Spray every burning cigarette, if necessary, more than once. If a perpetrator gets doused, all the better!
Hadi
Ngurah Rai International Airport knows how to deal with this issue.
Munken
Amend the smoking ban to allow separate, designated smoking areas.
Vinny Gracchus
Make sure there are smoking lounges and make security personnel tell smokers to use them.
OB
Fines speak louder than words in this situation.
Batik
In all Australian airports it is illegal to smoke. When I arrive at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, I know I'm home.
There are only two countries in the world, China and Indonesia, where motorists think that cross walks are road decorations.
When I was in China, what saved me from serious injury was the fact that I am Indonesian. Instinctively I stopped at a cross walk and the vehicles didn't give a hoot, they just sped past me. The way to solve this and other small-time corruption cases is to catch, fine or imprison all security personnel so that being 'kind' is no longer profitable.
Pauloh
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