Fate of tobacco industry in Indonesia

The new Health Law has been regarded as a threat to the meeting sector in Indonesia.

Workers sorting tobacco. Source: Getty

Around the world, especially in Indonesia, for more and more, the tobacco sector, especially the cigarette sector, is receiving pressure in the form of very binding rules.

Achmad Ishaudin, a tobacco farmer and manager of a tobacco farmers association in Temanggung district, Central Java, spoke about the burden they have had to face lately in tobacco cultivation.

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