Rokok Harus Cantumkan Gambar Seram di Pembungkusnya
Companies are Obliged to Imprint a Health Warning Sticker on Cigarette Pack
Reporter : Roni Said
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Ketentuan untuk mencantumkan peringatan bahaya merokok dengan gambar seram pada kemasan wajib dilakukan oleh perusahaan rokok sebelum didistribusikan di seluruh Indonesia.
"Wajib dilakukan, baik rokok produk luar maupun rokok produk dalam negeri," kata Menteri Koordinator bidang Kesejahteraan Rakyat (Menkokesra) Agung Lakson di Jakarta, Senin.
Ia menambahkan, pemerintah memberikan batas toleransi kepada produsen rokok sampai tiga bulan ke depan untuk menarik produk yang belum bergambar.
Produksi lama, kata dia, harus ditarik secara bertahap.
"Pada saat ini kemasan yang belum mencantumkan peringatan kesehatan dengan gambar seram merupakan produk lama, karena produk yang baru sudah harus ada gambar-gambar itu," katanya.
Pemerintah, kata Agung, mengharapkan peringatan kesehatan bergambar pada bungkus rokok akan melindungi generasi muda atau perokok pemula untuk menghentikan kebiasaannya.
"Peringatan ini bukan untuk mematikan industri rokok, melainkan untuk kelangsungan hidup generasi muda bangsa Indonesia," katanya.
Jakarta (B2B) - Indonesian Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare, Agung Laksono stated that cigarette companies are obliged to imprint a health warning sticker on every cigarette pack it distributes in Indonesia.
In 2014, the Indonesian government had started to implement Government Regulation Number 109 and Health Minister Regulation Number 28 on the presence of a health warning sticker on every cigarette pack distributed in Indonesia.
"It is obligatory for both the local and foreign companies marketing their products in Indonesia," emphasized Agung.
Agung pointed out that the government had given a three-month time period to the cigarette companies to adopt the new regulation and withdraw cigarette packs without warning stickers that had been distributed in the market.
"Our intention is not to kill the cigarette industry. The warning sticker aims to protect young Indonesians from the negative effects of smoking," added Agung.
A research revealed that Indonesian smokers consumed at least 302 billion cigarettes in 2013, thereby placing Indonesia on the top of the Southeast Asian smokers' list.
The research results of the Demographic Institute of the University of Indonesia's Economic Faculty indicated that cigarette consumption in Indonesia accounted for 46.16 percent of the population.
Active smokers of both genders in Indonesia increased by 35 percent or about 61.4 million in 2013 as compared to the previous year, the research data showed.
It was revealed that deaths caused by smoking-related diseases in 2010 reached 190,260 or about 12.7 percent of all deaths in the same year.
