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n an effort to make students aware of the dangers of tobacco and deterring them from smoking, Culture and Education Minister Muhadjir Effendi plans to include information on the dangers of smoking in the school curriculum, starting from elementary school.

“Elementary school students will be taught about the dangers of smoking as part of the character building program,” the minister said recently in Yogyakarta.

In accordance with the optimization of character education targets envisioned in President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s Nawa Cita program, Muhadjir said the dangers of smoking would be taught to students from elementary school to junior high school. “Education about the dangers of smoking is very important for teenagers, beginning from primary school,” he was quoted as saying by Antara news agency.