Many Jakarta Minimarkets Display Cigarette Advertisements, Deputy Governor Asks For Awareness

Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria (Photo: Diah Ayu Wardani/VOI)

JAKARTA - The DKI Provincial Government has banned shops and minimarkets from displaying cigarette advertisements. However, currently, there are still many minimarkets in Jakarta that have not closed the cigarette windows and advertisements displayed near the cashier.

Responding to this, the Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta, Ahmad Riza Patria, asked all the people to obey the applicable rules.

Riza hopes that the minimarket manager will take the initiative to close the cigarette advertisements displayed in his shop without waiting for an inspection from the Civil Service Police Unit ranks.

"We want the public to have awareness. We must obey, obey, be disciplined with our own awareness because it is a necessity. Not because there are sanctions for the presence of the apparatus, then we will be disciplined", said Riza at DKI City Hall, Central Jakarta, Friday, September 17.

In the future, Riza admitted that his party will apply incentives and disincentives regarding cigarette advertisements in Jakarta. Currently, the DKI Provincial Government is preparing regulations regarding reward and punishment.

"This is still a process. In implementing regulations, there must be rewards and punishments in stages. Later we will arrange the mechanism", said Riza.

Since a few days ago, the DKI Jakarta Civil Service Police Unit has started browsing minimarkets and covering cigarette windows with the cloth to prevent them from being seen.

Head of the DKI Jakarta Civil Service Police Unit City Facilities and Infrastructure Control Section, Muhammadong said, all ranks of Civil Service Police Unit in 5 administrative cities in Jakarta are currently on duty. field looking for these ads.

"Currently, the Civil Service Police Unit is actively controlling cigarette advertisements in outdoor and indoor media", said Madong when contacted.

The head of the DKI Civil Service Police Unit, Arifin, said that this action was an implementation of the Governor's Appeal number 8 of 2021 regarding the development of smoking areas.

In the regulation signed by Governor Anies Baswedan last June, it was written a prohibition on displaying cigarette packs or addictive substances in places of sale. However, cigarettes can still be sold.

Arifin said that the Sergub had been issued in June 2021. However, the action had only been taken a few days ago. The reason is that the Civil Service Police Unit only learned of the existence of cigarette advertisements based on reports from residents.

In addition, the DKI Provincial Government also prohibits the existence of billboards that display cigarette advertisements. His party has also taken action by the rules in DKI Governor Regulation Number 148 of 2017.

"In Governor's Regulation 148, it is stated that it is forbidden to display advertisements for cigarettes or addictive substances, either indoors or indoors or outdoors or outdoors", explained Arifin.