VIVAnews - Seto Mulyadi, Chief of the National Commission for Child Protection, strongly sides with the haram (forbidden) instruction an Indonesian mass muslim organization Muhammadiyah issued against smoking. Seto emphasized that more children have now become smokers.
"We truly support [the instruction]," Seto told VIVAnews.
Seto explained that half of the 60 million smokers in Indonesia will die due to tobacco-affect ailments. "Tobacco farmers remain in poverty while tobacco tycoons are getting richer," he said.
"The most worrying fact is that more tobacco advertisements are persuading children to start smoking," said Seto. "Today, five-year-old children have been smokers. Within the next four years, the percentage will rise by 400 percent," he said.
Therefore, the Commission also props up the efforts to pass into law the draft governmental regulation on tobacco effects. The draft consists of three main points such as banning of tobacco advertisements, banning of smoking in public place and inserting pictures of smoking effects on cigarette packs.
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Translated by: Bonardo Maulana W
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