The other day I felt awful for being an Indonesian citizen. Why?
I’m not against smoking, I don’t have problem people risking their health for sheer pleasure, however I DO against public smoking*. Passive smoker is just as bad as active smoker. If you are a non-smoker you know how awful it is sitting next to a smoker. I’ve been in that situation, and I just cannot understand why these smokers are not sensitive enough to understand that not everybody wants their smoke. They keep on puffing their smokes right up my face, without any guilt or shame.
So what makes me feel awful for being an Indonesian citizen?
Our national economy is driven by Tobacco Companies (rokok). If you look at your newspaper, on Finance/Investment section, notice that Indonesian blue chips stocks are dominated by Tobbaco Companies. Compare this to Singapore where its blue chips stocks are dominated by IT industry. Under this dependency to Tobbaco Companies, any regulation against public smoking will have a hard time in the House of Representative (DPR).
However, today I am suprised that last Friday, Jakarta’s state legislature passed a bill that bans smoking from public area (UU Pengendalian Pencemaran Udara). You will be fined up to Rp 1,000,000 for smoking on public area. This is a very strong decision and can be bad for economics since 98% of the Jakarta income from tolls is coming from cigarettes toll. Yes, by smoking those poisons you actually helps Indonesia’s macroeconomics.
You may ask: ‘What does the law good for, if our law enforcement is still impotent?’
I dont think our law enforcemnt is impotent, it’s our Police Departement thats not working hard enoguh. Maybe there are not enough polices, maybe police’s salary is still too low. I dont know. But law enforcement in Indonesia is not impotent. All it needs is a proper reward and punishment, like what happened recently in Jogja where you will be fined Rp 15,000 if you dont wear Standard Helmet. Rp 15,000 is a small amount of money, but now, everybody wears standard helmet.
Reward and punishment can be so amusing.
Dulu aku terkhir denger ktanya 50 juta buat ngeoroko di publik .. apa diturunin ya .. iya sih public smoking activity tu sebenarnya aku gk suka. Tapi aku malah lebih concern ek aturannya .. kenapa merorkok .. knp tidak yang laen2 .. nyampah, polusi (kendaraan ato pabrik) .. jadi anaeh aja gitu .. kayak maksa2in tanpa dasar yang jelas ..
trus soal helmet .. itu juga rada giman gituuu .. setengah niat .. ko ya beneran mau menggalakkan ya mbok yao razia tiap hari .. gk pas tgl2 tertentu, pake keroyokan sekompi .. trus besok2nya dibiarin sepi ..
Sori klo komennya bahasa indoensia .. gak gablek bahasa inggris .. komennya mengko malah lucu soalnya vocabnya diulang2 terus :p
toni:
trus soal helmet .. itu juga rada giman gituuu .. setengah niat .. ko ya beneran mau menggalakkan ya mbok yao razia tiap hari .. gk pas tgl2 tertentu, pake keroyokan sekompi .. trus besok2nya dibiarin sepi ..Aku rasa itu adalah salah satu mekanisme ‘Reward and Punishment’, pas awal-awal mungkin harus keroyokan gitu untuk memberi shock therapy. Kalau udah tertib, gak perlu keroyokan lagi, cuma harus di maintain supaya nggak jadi nggak tertib lagi. Tapi ya itu, aku juga ikutan heran kenapa cuma rokok? Kenapa nggak sampah dan pelanggaran lalu lintas lain?
menurut saya sih yg penting itu bukan law-nya. Tapi gimana implementasinya di lapangan (bhs pejabat) :D
Tapi serius. Percuma mau ada larangan ini itu dan berapapun dendanya, kalau tidak pernah ditegakkan :)
Jangankan ngerokok, yang jelas2 korupsi segede bagong aja susah dihukum (hehehe or jangan2 menghukum maling ayam memang lebih gampang daripada korupsi, di negara kita).
Kalo bicara politik, perbaikan moral bangsa, dsb … susah ah. Nanti buntut2nya sampe pada masalah ‘duluan mana telor sama ayam’. He3.
Menurutku ya mas, agak kurang proporsional kalau membandingkan pemberantasan korupsi tingkat tinggi dengan merokok.
Korupsi tingkat tinggi, lebih rumit karena melibatkan politik, politik melibarkan kekuasaan eknomi bisnis dll.
Sementara pemberantasan merokok di tempat umum, relatif lebih mudah (dibanding dengan pemberantasan korupsi, harap tidak diartikan sebagai: mudah :), karena sebenarnya sudah terbukti sukses beberapa kali seperti pada kasus Helm Standar, Seat Belt dll.
wah,mon…
sebaga pimpinan pasukan hurahura,tika minta sori deh! :)
masalahnya kita blom bisa memperkirakan arah angi berhembuss..
coba kalo rokok tuh asepnya bisa dikantongin..
hmmm…
sori ya mooonnn….
kamu tetap yg terindah… howeks!!>
gimana kalo pasuka hurahura punya masker buat yg gak ngerokok yah..
hihihi…
Law is made to be broken. Just as simple as that for people who doesn’t know or care about themselves and other people. For Indonesian, that’s very long journey to understand how important the life is, way…way….long… That’s the problem, everyone just try to solve the cosmetics problems and only things that can be benefit for them not the fundamental problems for everyone, and you know what those are. Just for the example, it’s easy for me to adjust myself to live in foreign country, but it’s very hard for me when I came back to Jakarta. Everything is changed, the value of life is changed. Everything became so expensive, the only thing is getting cheaper and cheaper is human life. I love indo, I tried so hard to live by the law, and God and my family help me to do that for this long, but I don’t know until when because my family, specially my daughter, she cannot stand any longer to deal with everything here. Too much for her. She just 6th grader student (SD), but she didn’t understand why all of her friends and relatives here in Jakarta so obsessed about brand items although we can afford it more than everybody else (no offense)? Why it’s so big deal for others with what she drives with to school? Nobody cares about self cleanliness, responsibility. There is somebody who is responsible about everything. Somebody to do the laundry, cooks, drive, cleans the shoes, carry the school bag, and prepare the meals 24 hours. She kept asking me with all these questions. If Indonesian still rose in this kind of environment, you know what they turned to be in the future.
Our daughter is trained as a kid who’s responsible to do everything by herself since 3 years old. She is a straight “A” student here in Jakarta and before that. We tried to raise her to be a person that never afraid or hesitate to speak out of her mind, who understood that good or bad critics is very important to improve your self.
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