CIGARETTE INDUSTRY

TULUNGAGUNG, 19/10 - INDUSTRI ROKOK BANGKRUT. Two workers linting cigarettes at PR Mardi Jaya, Waung Village, Boyolangu District, Tulungagung, East Java, Tuesday (19/10). The expiration of tobacco prices makes PR Mardi Jaya performs efficiency by imposeing three working days from an average of six working days in a week and reducing linting employees from 27 workers to 10 workers. If in 2007 there are about 210 home cigarette factories in Tulungagung Regency, currently only about 15 factories that are still producing. ANTARA/Arief Priyono/ss/mes/10