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DKI Jakarta Regional People’s Representative Council (DPRD).
approve the Draft Regional Regulation (Raperda)
Non-Smoking Area (KTR)
ratified as a regional regulation at the Plenary Meeting, Tuesday (23/12) yesterday.
The KTR Regional Regulation is one of four draft regional regulations that were passed as regional regulations at yesterday’s plenary session.Especially for the KTR Regional Regulation, all council members agreed to ratify it.
After the Plenary Meeting, Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Rano Karno emphasized that the essence of Smoke Free Zones (KTR) is not about a total ban or discrimination against smokers.The KTR Regional Regulation, he said, is to provide equal rights to clean air and a healthy environment for all Jakarta residents.
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“[This is] especially vulnerable communities such as children, pregnant women and the elderly,” he said representing DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung at the DKI Jakarta DPRD Plenary Meeting in Central Jakarta, last Tuesday as quoted from
Between.
He said the Draft Regional Regulation (Raperda) on KTR had comprehensively considered various aspects on macroeconomic aspects.
This includes the contribution of the cigarette industry as well as long-term economic losses due to the burden of health costs and reduced citizen productivity.
“The executive believes that with a healthier society, productivity will increase and will ultimately create a stronger and more sustainable economic climate,” he said.
Previously, the policy governing KTR in Jakarta was only in the form of a gubernatorial regulation (pergub), namely DKI Gubernatorial Regulation Number 75/2005 and its amendment to DKI Jakarta Gubernatorial Regulation Number 88 of 2010 concerning No-Smoking Areas.
DKI Jakarta is one of the regions in Indonesia that does not yet have a Regional Regulation (Perda) regarding KTR along with several other cities in Aceh and Papua Provinces.
In fact, Health Law Number 17 of 2023 requires regional governments to determine and implement KTR in their respective regions.
He said that with the approval of the Draft Regional Regulation on KTR by the DPRD, it would be a real step to support Jakarta’s transformation towards a global city that is healthier and livable.
“The stipulation of the Draft Regional Regulation on Non-Smoking Areas is a form of commitment to providing stronger legal certainty to protect Jakarta’s future generations,” said the figure who is familiarly known as Bang Doel.
Business world response
The DKI Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Coalition Izzudin Zindan hopes that the KTR regional regulation will accommodate the messages that have been conveyed by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
“We hope that the DKI Jakarta DPRD will comply with central directives,” said Izzudin in Jakarta, last Tuesday.
As for the documents resulting from this facilitation, the Ministry of Home Affairs asked the DPRD and the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to adjust several provisions.
For example, the article prohibiting the display of cigarettes was requested to be removed because it was deemed to have no legal basis.
Apart from that, the Ministry of Home Affairs also requested the establishment of exemptions for the sale and purchase of cigarette products in places that carry out economic activities, such as markets, restaurants or eating places, and hotels.
Deputy General Chair of the Indonesian Modern Retail Entrepreneurs Association (Aprindo) John Ferry assessed that the results of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ facilitation provided a breath of fresh air for business actors.
He believes that the DKI Jakarta KTR Regional Regulation Draft (Raperda) will have a big impact on retail business actors.
“There are 67,000 shops in Jakarta that will be affected if the Draft Regional Regulation on KTR is designed excessively, considering that so far retail shops have made significant profits from cigarette sales,” he said.
Thus, Aprindo hopes that this regulation will not reduce the space for movement and growth for the retail sector.
(between/kid)
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