Social responsibility in smoke-free air policy

Abstract

This article aims to identify social responsibility of stakeholder in the implementation of smoke-free area policy in relation to Surakarta City’s development as Child-friendly City. This research employed literature review method. Literature source comes from scientific journals, research reports, credible website, and news portal. To identify the dimensions of social responsibility, it is traced from the criteria developed by The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the Global Impact of the United Nations, and ISO 26000. From the result of research, it can be concluded that there is interconnected economic-political interests between city government and Cigarette Company making the fulfillment of children’s right to the smoke-free region not the priority.

The participation of Forum Anak Surakarta in developing children-friendly public spaces into a smoke-free area

“…Another constraint is related to no commitment in the Regional Government to establish the prohibition of cigar advertisement in 100 percent of Surakarta area due to the difficulty of supervising and imposing sanction against the smokers. However, the actual reason is the city government's unpreparedness for finding the substitution for the cigarette tax as the source of local income [28].…”