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Alternative tobacco and nicotine products in Indonesia

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22nd July 2024: Indonesia: The minister of finance has released the Macroeconomic Framework and Fiscal Policy Principles for 2025, in preparation for the State Budget 2025. In these principles, it is outlined that the excise duties applicable to tobacco products will increase in 2025, although no specific rates have been disclosed. This will entail an increase of the applicable tax on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, as they are considered tobacco products for taxation purposes.
19th July 2024: Indonesia: The Indonesian Personal Vaporiser Association (APVI) has called on the government to separate regulations concerning cigarettes from the ones regulating e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs), press reports. Regulations on e-cigarettes and HTPs are expected to be issued soon, according to the minister of health, following the approval of the omnibus Health Law in August 2023. The Health Law enabled the government to issue regulations on e-cigarettes and HTPs. According to the ministry’s official website, the new regulations will repeal the current tobacco framework, namely Government Regulation (PP) 109 of 2012.
8th January 2024: Indonesia: As recorded in our compliance calendar, the applicable tax on tobacco products and nicotine pouches has increased. As of 1st January 2024, the tax on heated tobacco products has increased to IDR3,074 ($0.20) per g of tobacco, while for oral tobacco products and nicotine pouches the tax has increased to IDR135 ($0.0087) per g of tobacco.
20th December 2023: Global: Several EU and international markets will see a rise in heated tobacco taxes on 1st January 2024, including Indonesia, Bulgaria, Russia and Estonia. Further information is available in our compliance calendar.
3rd August 2023: Indonesia: The Ministry of Finance is planning to increase the excise duty on e-cigarettes, press reports – a move that could also affect heated tobacco products (HTPs), which are classed as a type of e-cigarette for tax purposes. No formal regulation has been announced yet. HTPs are currently taxed at IDR2,886 (€0.20) per g of tobacco.
9th June 2023: Indonesia: Deputy minister of health Dante Saksono said that the ministry will issue specific regulations for e-cigarettes, although no concrete date has been proposed, press reports. Regulations are likely to address heated tobacco products as well, which are considered a type of e-cigarette in Indonesia. In December 2022, president Joko Widodo issued a list of planned governmental regulations for 2023, including the proposed revision of the tobacco framework, namely Government Regulation (PP) No. 109 of 2012, in order to encompass the regulation of heated tobacco products.
26th January 2023: Indonesia: Vice president Ma'ruf Amin said today that the effects of e-cigarettes would be reviewed and, if proven to be harmful to public health, they would be banned by the government, press reports. These statements are likely to affect heated tobacco products, as they are considered a type of electronic cigarette in Indonesia.
26th January 2023: Indonesia: The minister of health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said yesterday that regulations for e-cigarettes are still being discussed across ministries, press reports. The minister highlighted that these products cannot be considered a substitute for traditional tobacco products, and that they are considered to target children due to their attractive flavours. These statements are likely to affect heated tobacco products, as they are considered a type of electronic cigarette in Indonesia.
23rd January 2023: Indonesia: The Directorate General of Customs and Excise has revealed how much revenue was collected from e-cigarette and heated tobacco excise duty in 2022, press reports. A total of IDR1.02tn ($68m) included IDR627.11bn ($42m) from open-system e-cigarettes, IDR119.47bn ($8m) from closed-system e-cigarettes, and IDR271.93bn ($18m) from heated tobacco products. The total revenue collected from tobacco and related products was IDR218.62tn ($14.57bn), of which e-cigs and heated tobacco accounted for just 0.4%.
10th January 2023: Indonesia: A new excise duty on heated tobacco products now applies, as of 1st January, at IDR2,886 ($0.19) per g of tobacco.
9th January 2023: Indonesia: On 23rd December 2022, president Joko Widodo issued the list of planned governmental regulations for 2023. Among the proposed regulations, the president has included the revision of Government Regulation (PP) No. 109 of 2012 to include heated tobacco provisions, increase the size of health warnings for tobacco products and broaden advertising restrictions. This revision, now formally envisaged in the government's legislative plans, comes as a result of many years of inter-ministerial discussions and institutional recommendations.
19th December 2022: Indonesia: The Ministry of Finance has recently issued Regulation 192/PMK.010/2022, amending Regulation 193/PMK.010/2021 to set the new applicable excise duties for tobacco products for 2023 and 2024. Starting 1st January 2023, heated tobacco products, classified as "solid e-cigarettes'' ("rokok elektrik padat"), will be taxed at IDR2,886 ($0.19) per g of tobacco and, from 1st January 2024, the tax will increase to IDR3,074 ($0.20) per g. Chewing tobacco products will be taxed at IDR127 ($0.0082) per g of tobacco from 1st January 2023, and at IDR135 ($0.0087) from 1st January 2024. The new levies represent increases of 6.5% and 6% over the prior year's for heated tobacco and chewing tobacco products, respectively.

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