CIGARETTE INDUSTRY

TULUNGAGUNG, 1/2 - INDUSTRI ROKOK. Worker conducts the process of cigarette cigarette cigarette in a hand-kretek cigarette home industry (SKT) in Tulungagung, East Java, Monday (1/2). The cigarette industry employers complain about the increase in customs from Rp 40 to Rp 65 per rod for the hand kretek cigarette per January 1, which makes them forced to lower production up to 20 percent. The rise of customs is also lying by the rise of the raw material of tobacco kingngan from Rp 31 thousand per kg to Rp 35 thousand per kg. ANTARA/Arief Priyono/ama/10