An official in Indonesia has called for less smoking and more meat eating to combat poverty and its effects. But many people believe that increasing meat-eating globally is not sustainable.Read More
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To import unmanufactured tobacco into Indonesia, companies are going to have to demonstrate that they are buying local tobacco.Read More
Without any hint of irony, a heading on a story in Indonesia said: Finance Minister looks at tobacco taxes to solve gaps in health funding.Read More
A minister in Indonesia seems to have a ‘puzzling’ attitude to traditional cigarettes; the consumption of which he appears to champion over the use of vapor products.Read More
Indonesia’s Health Minister has said that the country needs to conduct its own studies into the impact of tobacco rather than cut-and-paste the figures obtained from overseas studies.Read More
An organization launched in Indonesia aims to stand up for the rights of smokers and counter the discrimination that they suffer.Read More
Much of the impetus behind the movement to replace smoking with vaping has come from the West; so it is encouraging that the 1st Asia Harm Reduction Forum was held in Jakarta last week.Read More
A tax is being imposed on e-liquids sold in Indonesia partly on the grounds that the ‘main ingredient of vape liquid is tobacco’.Read More
Tobacco farmers in Indonesia are calling for protection from imports. Why wouldn’t they? What has globalization done for them?Read More
The illegal trade in cigarettes, which in 2016 accounted for 12.1 percent of the Indonesian market, will be given a boost by tax hikes in the pipeline.Read More
