烟草在线据《烟业通讯》报道编译　　据《雅加达邮报》的一则报道说，印度尼西亚政府明年可能会让卷烟和烟草消费税保持不变，以便保护卷烟业的就业。

　　8月19日，印度尼西亚财政部的税收主管Anwar Surpijadi告诉当地记者说，他很担心进一步提高消费税率会损害卷烟业，并且威胁到数百万工人的工作。

　　但Anwar仍然预计，在销售额增长的支持下，烟草业明年的收入仍然能取得增长。

　　Anwar不赞成当地分析师的看法，这些分析师认为，消费税增长60%将会增加国家收入，减少吸烟者的人数，并保持卷烟业的活力。

　　他说，如果卷烟税的提高低于通货膨胀率，那么卷烟制造商还可以忍受消费税的上提，因为吸烟者将能够对付因烟税上提而出现的卷烟价格上涨。

　　他补充说：“对人的健康有害的卷烟可能是那些非法的卷烟，或者是那些尼古丁含量很高的卷烟。品牌卷烟的尼古丁含量要低一些。”

　　据《雅加达邮报》的这则报道说，在印尼，有1200万人的生计直接或间接依赖烟草和卷烟业，据说，印尼的平均卷烟价格是世界上最低的。

　　与此同时，报道引用印度尼西亚非丁香烟制造商协会主席Muhaimin Moefti的话说，印尼政府和卷烟制造商同意至少到2010年时才会上提卷烟消费税。他补充说，这已经在烟草业2007年到2010年的发展方针上做出说明。

Indonesia seeking to protect tobacco jobs

Tobacco Reporter
Aug 21, 2008—

　　The Indonesian government may leave unchanged the excise duty on cigarettes and tobacco next year to help protect cigarette industry employment, according to a report in The Jakarta Post.

　　The Finance Ministry's director general of Customs and Excise, Anwar Surpijadi, told local reporters on Tuesday he was concerned that a further rise in the rate of excise would damage the cigarette industry and risk the jobs of millions of workers.

　　But Anwar is still expecting the tobacco industry to deliver increased revenues next year on the back of rising sales.

　　Anwar disagrees with local analysts who have suggested that a 60 per cent rise in excise duty would boost state revenue, cut the number of smokers and retain a robust cigarette industry.

　　He said cigarette producers would tolerate an increase in excise if the rise was below the rate of inflation, because smokers would be able to cope with the consequent rise in cigarette prices.

　　"Cigarettes which are harmful to human health are perhaps those that are illegal or those that have high nicotine," he added. "Branded cigarettes have less nicotine."

　　According to the Post report, the livelihoods of 12 million people are directly or indirectly dependent on the tobacco and cigarette sector in Indonesia, which is said to have the lowest average cigarette price in the world.

　　Meanwhile, the chairman of the Indonesian Non-Clove Cigarette Producers' Association, Muhaimin Moefti, was quoted as saying that the government and cigarette producers were agreed that cigarette excise should not rise until at least 2010. This was already stated in the tobacco industry road map for the period from 2007 until 2020, he added.