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Text your say: Ahok told to not bow down to smokers
Moving on: Jakarta Governor Basuki âAhokâ Tjahaja Purnama says he will never retract any policies that benefit the public
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Moving on: Jakarta Governor Basuki âAhokâ Tjahaja Purnama says he will never retract any policies that benefit the public. However, he said that he planned to relax the gubernatorial ban on smoking in shopping malls because mall owners declined to prohibit shoppers from lighting up on their premises.(JP/Seto Wardhana) (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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span class="inline inline-center">Moving on: Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama says he will never retract any policies that benefit the public. However, he said that he planned to relax the gubernatorial ban on smoking in shopping malls because mall owners declined to prohibit shoppers from lighting up on their premises.(JP/Seto Wardhana)
Your comments on the planned review by Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama of a gubernatorial regulation banning smoking in shopping malls:
Pak Ahok, you have to be clear or resolute on your own regulation banning smoking to save the non-smoking majority, especially our offspring.
Eduard Iseli
Come on Mr. Ahok, don't break your decision on the smoking ban.
Once you let them disobey you and your policy, they will never listen to you later on. There's a saying here in this country: 'don't lick your spittle'.
E Nurdin
If you do so, Mr. Governor, I, for one, will be deeply disappointed with you. I have always seen you as Iron Man, bedrock unshaken by any fickle tide.
But, it is for the first time that I am disappointed with you because you want to restrict demonstrations in public spaces and to relax the ban on smoking in certain places.
In both cases, you do so at the cost of the (silent) majority's interests just because the minority has a big mouth and maybe also deep pockets.
Besides, your reason to relax the smoking ban regulation is utterly ridiculous. This means, if many people violate a regulation often enough, the regulation has to be revised!
So, Mr. Governor, are you still Iron Man? Or have you also been contaminated with the rot that pervades the corridors of those in power?
I am sure there are many others who are of the same view but they have yet to express their aspirations.
Hadi
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