You can lead a politician to ban smoking, but you cannot stop him from smoking

The Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) has named Indonesia’s House of Representatives’ building as one of the smokiest in Jakarta, according to a BERNAMA (Malaysian National News Agency) story.

The naming—and shaming—came about in a recent report on the effectiveness of the city administration’s 2010 ban on tobacco smoking inside public buildings.

Of 225 government offices examined in the report, 11 percent had not properly enforced the smoking ban, the study found.

However, the lobbies and breezeways in the House of Representatives were among the most unhealthy public places, YLKI manager Tulus Abadi apparently told the Jakarta Globe on Wednesday.

“Forty-two percent of [smoking ban] violations happened at urban ward offices and 17 percent in the House of Representatives’ building,” he added.

Some 57 percent of survey respondents said they were reluctant to report smoking in non-smoking areas and that there was no clear avenue for making such complaints.

Tulus said YLKI planned to measure secondhand smoke levels inside the legislature’s headquarters.