VIVAnews - Council of Indonesian Clerics (MUI) is getting more serious in discussing the issuance of an instruction (fatwa) banning smoking in public places and under-aged smoking. The meeting of the clerics (Ijma Ulama) which will discuss the instruction on smoking will be held in December 2008.
“This coming December we will discuss fatwa on smoking,” said Head of Central MUI, Umar Shihab, to VIVAnews, at his office in Menteng, Central Jakarta, today, Nov. 25.
The meeting will be attended by MUI management from all provinces. However, Umar continued, MUI has not determined the exact date of the meeting.
“From that meeting, a fatwa will be issued on whether or smoking is prohibited. The Ijma Ulama (meeting) will either take place in Padang or Jakarta,” said Umar. The exact location is yet to be determined.
Head of Children’s Rights Commission, Seto Mulyadi, had asked MUI to declare smoking prohibited (haram). This is because, from health point of view, smoking is dangerous to a human’s body, and in addition, a large segment of smokers are children.
According to MUI, smoking is definitely a hazard to health, but it realizes that if smoking is entirely banned, it would cause greater problems.
Head of MUI Ma’ruf Amin had said on Monday, 24 November, that data is being collected from the public, the government, and cigarette factories. "We are hoping that the data will have been collected by January," said Ma'ruf.
Translated by: Ramona Sofianne Dewi.
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