Indonesia Parliament tops list of smoking ban offenders

The Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) has named Indonesia's House of Representatives (Parliament) building as one of the smokiest buildings in Jakarta, in a recent report on the effectiveness of the city administration's 2010 ban on smoking inside the capital's public buildings.

"The lobbies and breezeways in the House of Representatives are (among) the most unhealthy public places," YLKI manager Tulus Abadi was quoted as saying in Jakarta Globe on Wednesday.

"Forty two percent of (smoking ban) violations happened at urban ward offices and seventeen percent in the House of Representatives building," he added.

Tulus said it planned to measure secondhand smoke levels inside the legislature's headquarters.

Of 225 government offices examined in the report, 11 percent had not properly enforced the smoking ban, the study found.

Some 57 percent of survey respondents said they were reluctant to report smoking in non-smoking areas and that there was no clear avenue for making such complaints.