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Text your say: Smoking ban in Jakarta still neglected
Your comments on a resident who filed a complaint with Jakarta Governor Basuki âAhokâ Tjahaja Purnama over a shopping mall tenant that allowed customers to smoke inside the building despite a gubernatorial regulation that bans smoking in public places
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strong>Your comments on a resident who filed a complaint with Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama over a shopping mall tenant that allowed customers to smoke inside the building despite a gubernatorial regulation that bans smoking in public places.
We are waiting for Ahok to react accordingly. We also ask all the security chiefs of buildings in Jakarta to see that all gubernatorial regulations are enforced with no excuses. Fine heavily any recalcitrant managements.
Eddy Arjuna Zainy
I think smoking in public spaces is more dangerous than consuming morphine. Consuming morphine does not affect those around you.
Hendrizalz
Many coffee places have had to shut down because of the smoking ban. It's just silly to say that a petition signed by 38,000 should affect business in a city of 15 million.
OB
It shows a total lack of respect for the law, and, more importantly, demonstrates that law enforcement officers have for decades been failing to do their jobs.
Willo
Smoking is indeed a nasty habit. What would happen if our own wives fell into the nicotine trap?
First she could keep it secretly from her dear husband, but the urge for nicotine would surely give her away eventually.
Wouldn't any passing good-looking woman drive him crazy? His wife with a cigarette in her mouth would call him mata keranjang (womanizer), while her husband would call her back: keranjang mata air (bucket of tears). The best way to stop smoking? Don't start.
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
I think Ahok has to rely on the report that 90 percent of malls and shopping centers violate the regulation on no-smoking areas. I'd say it was more like 99.9 percent. Even at hospitals, I sometimes have to take on the role of a security officer to ask people not to smoke.
E Nurdin
Jakarta
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