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Surabaya to slap smokers and vapers with fines, social work
Surabaya city administration in East Java will start imposing fines and social work for smokers and vapers violating smoke-free area policy by the end of August.
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A volunteer talks to a minimarket cashier about the dangers of cigarettes during a campaign against child smokers in Cengkareng, West Jakarta on March 7, 2021. (Antara/Muhammad Iqbal)
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he city administration of Surabaya in in East Java will start imposing fines and social work for smokers and vapers violating smoke-free areas by the end of August.
The city will slap Rp 250,000 (US$17.04) fines and social work on individual violators. While for institutions or businesses, the city will impose staged sanctions from written warnings, temporary closure of activity, administrative fines between Rp 500,000 and Rp 50 million, and finally permit revocation.
“We are now communicating this policy to the public, so it will not be a sudden implementation. Hopefully by next week or at the end of the month, we can implement it,” Mayor Eri Cahyadi told reporters in Surabaya on Wednesday.
The mayor stressed that both cigarette smokers and electric cigarette smokers would be affected. “They are the same,” he said.
The mayor called on all parties to heed and publicize a mayoral regulation (Perwali) on smoke-free areas, which has been enacted since June 1 based on a 2021 Perwali and 2019 provincial bylaw on the matter.
The regulation designates special places for smoking and bans smoking in health facilities, educational facilities, child activity areas, places of worship and public transportation.
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