Take control of cigarette production in Indonesia

In order: Protecting generation present and future of health damage, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to smoke tobacco.

Cigarette Production Control measures as follows: Rates for cigarettes and restrictions on tobacco production. The price for clove cigarette machines become Rp 266 per rod, while the white cigarette machine to Rp 246.2 per rod and clove cigarette hand to Rp 151.9 per rod. Meanwhile, restrictions on cigarette production in 2010 amounted to 250 billion sticks, and by 2015 about 260 billion cigarettes. If in 2000 the production was 213 billion cigarettes, 2009 is 245 billion sticks, or up 15 percent. In 2010, production according to the prediction of Community Alliance Tobacco Indonesia could reach 265 billion rod.

Registration cigarette production machines counteract the efforts aimed at producing cigarettes illegally. The number of cigarette company in 2007 as many as 4,793, and has decreased until in 2010 the number becomes 2,600.

Signed Framework convention on tobacco control. The reason is: Framework convention on tobacco control in Indonesia has not signed. The following are the Guiding Principles from the World Health Organization, source: http://www.who.int/fctc/guidelines/en/

There is a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry’s interests and public health policy interests. Parties, when dealing with the tobacco industry or those working to further its interests, should be accountable and transparent. Parties should require the tobacco industry and those working to further its interests to operate and act in a manner that is accountable and transparent. Because their products are lethal, the tobacco industry should not be granted incentives to establish or run their businesses.

The first and second steps above seem difficult to achieve results when the third step is not done. This is when viewed from the performance of three public companies, such as producing cigarettes (performance as of June 2010, everything positive): PT Gudang Garam Tbk, PT Hanjaya Mandala Sampoerna and Bentoel International Investama Tbk.

Related: Indonesia tobacco industry