Now to Court

Tobacco and clove farmers have filed for a material review of the tobacco clause to the Constitutional Court. They are also asking for a stipulation that the warning labels on the dangers of smoking be removed from cigarette packs.

October 6, 2010

A FLATBED truck carrying a loudspeaker moved slowly out of the office of the East Java Regional House of Representatives (DPRD), heading for the Governor’s office. About a thousand tobacco and clove farmers, from the Alliance of Indonesian Tobacco Farmers, walked behind it. They were going to meet the Governor of East Java, Soekarwo.

On Wednesday last week, they asked Governor Soekarwo to convey their petition to the Indonesian government, to

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