CIGARETTE RATE HIKES PLANS

A number of employees conduct cigarette rinting process in the hand kretek cigarette area (SKT) in PT Gelora Djaja in Surabaya, East Java, Friday (6/1). In 2017, the government issued a new custom policy through the financial minister regulation number 147/PMK.010/2016 concerning the highest rate increase of 13.46 percent for the type of machine white cigarette tobacco yield (SPM) and the lowest of 0 per cent for the results of hand kretek cigarette tobacco (SKT) IIIB, with an average increase weighed by 10.54 percent. ANTARA PHOTO/M Risyal Hidayat/aww/17.