Tobacco’s Winding Road Map
The battle between health advocates and tobacco supporters is intensifying as the deadline for setting excise duties is approaching. Tobacco products’ industrial road map is still stuck at the ministerial level. The ministry of national development planning went ahead with conducting studies.
Khairul Anam
December 22, 2020
WHAT Nirwala Dwi Heryanto can recall from the tobacco products industrial road map is commotion. During meetings, which always involved multi ministerial officials, every participant always defended his or her own sector’s interests. “The meeting has barely begun, and someone would already ask: ‘Wait a second, whose road map is this?’” said Nirwala, finance ministry’s technical and facilities director of custom
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