The National Tobacco Board in the Ministry of Primary Industries provides assistance to tobacco farmers.
Smuggling mainly involves kretek cigarettes from a neighbouring country.
Industry As of 1993, tobacco manufacturing was dominated by the subsidiaries or affiliates of 3 tobacco multinational companies. About 5,000 people were engaged full-time in the tobacco manufacturing industry in 1989. Tobacco consumption Annual adult per capita consumption peaked around 1980 at 1,990 cigarettes per adult per year, and since then has gradually declined, believed to be due in part to increased taxes on cigarettes. In 1990, tar levels of cigarettes ranged from 15 mg to 60 mg, and nicotine levels from 1.00 mg to 2.00 mg. In 1994, legislation should ensure that the level for nicotine shall not be more than 1.5 mg per cigarette while that of tar shall not be more than 20 mg per cigarette.