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View all search resultsAs someone who has been smoking for three years, 22-yearold Novi Arisandy thinks her habit of smoking a pack a day is normal compared to other smokers. Novi, who completed her undergraduate studies this month, says her father’s addiction to cigarettes is far worse.
Indonesia is the only ASEAN member country that has not yet totally banned tobacco companies from advertising their products in print media, television, radio and movies, putting young people at high exposure to cigarette advertisements, the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) claims.
The Surakarta City Hall, Central Java, has been declared a cigarette smoke free area as of June 1. In addition to citing health reasons, the Surakarta administration said the smoke-free zone was also implemented as part of its plan to make Surakarta a child-friendly city.
Following criticism, the government and the House of Representatives are mulling to cancel the deliberation of the controversial tobacco bill, but only on the condition that the government issues a ministerial regulation adopting the provisions in the bill.
Indonesia’s role in global development was recognized when then-president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2012 co-chaired the United Nation’s High-level Panel on the post-2015 agenda. The panel defined the global development framework that succeeded the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and was incorporated into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders at a UN summit in 2015.
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