烟草在线据《雅加达邮报》报道编译　　一个贸易协会表示，卷烟市场的下降和严格控烟规定的实施已经导致爪哇东部卷烟业数万个工作岗位的流失。

　　卷烟雇主协会（Gapero）表示，小规模卷烟工厂从2007年的3000家下降到当前的1970家。在这个数据中，563家位于爪哇东部，相比于2007年的1100家工厂明显下降。卷烟雇主协会玛琅分会主席霍尼说，2009年大玛琅有400家卷烟公司，到2013年这个数字下降到77家，并补充说，只有40家公司财务状况“良好”。

　　“财务状况良好的卷烟公司依然正常生产，而其它公司表现欠佳。今天，玛琅卷烟业务疲软，这使得它不可能招聘新工人，”他在9月9日说。

　　同时，卷烟工厂协调员塞得·阿布巴卡·鲁菲表示各种卷烟工厂都倾向于裁员以努力挽救他们的业务。

　　“玛琅卷烟公司平均将减少20%的雇员。该有效措施不仅适用于合同工人，还适用于正式员工。这样做是为了防止企业倒闭，”他说。

　　鲁菲说除了销售下降，2015年威胁到该行业的另一方面是烟草税的增加。

　　印尼的第四大卷烟制造商本图烟草公司是裁员的公司之一。公司在8000名员工中提供1000个自愿裁员名额。

　　本图烟草公司和监管事务主管塞弗·巴哈利·玛法说，自愿裁员已经从9月8日提出。他说这些人员将不会影响公司的产量。

　　塞弗公司将只通过3到4家工厂来完成先前11家工厂的产量。

　　他说，公司今年已经设定各类卷烟产量超过200亿支的目标，这个目标超过了2013年的产量。

　　“自愿裁员计划与卷烟产量生产减少无关。我们依然能够以较少的工厂产出相同数量的卷烟，”塞弗说。

　　他说，这个计划作为国内卷烟市场和产量下滑后的一个巩固计划被提出，同样还由于实施有关卷烟包装新规定带来的成本增加。

　　“其它的影响因素包括通货膨胀、较高的燃料价格、城市变迁或最低保障工资，”塞弗说。

　　爪哇东部人力、移民和人口局主管艾迪·普文纳托说，州政府已经为卷烟工厂工人准备了特别培训计划，如创业培训和转换到其它类型的工作。

　　“考虑到下岗烟草工人的命运，州长索卡沃也致信财政部要求推迟一些关于爪哇东部烟草公司税负规定的实施，”艾迪说。

Indonesia: Lay-offs and Closures Hit Tobacco Firms

　　The declining cigarette market and the implementation of tighter regulations have led to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the cigarette industry in East Java, a trade association says.

　　The Association of Cigarette Employers (Gapero) said that currently there were 1,970 small-scale cigarette factories, down from 3,000 in 2007. Of this figure, 563 are located in East Java, a significant drop compared to that of 2007 with 1,100 factories.

　　Jhony, chairman of the Malang branch of Gapero, said there were some 400 cigarette companies operating in Greater Malang in 2009 but the figure plunged to 77 in 2013, adding that only 40 companies had a "healthy" financial status.

　　"The [financially] healthy cigarette companies still have routine production, while others are under-performing. Today, the cigarette business in Malang is sluggish, making it impossible to recruit new workers," he said on Tuesday.

　　Meanwhile, Cigarette Factory Association coordinator Said Abubakar Lutfi said various cigarette companies were likely to downsize the number of employees in an effort to save their businesses.

　　"Cigarette companies in Malang will cut some 20 percent of employees on average. These efficiency measures are being applied not only to contract-based workers, but also to regular employees. This is being done to prevent business closures," he said.

　　Lutfi said besides declining sales, another factor that would threaten the industry was the increase in tobacco excise in 2015.

　　One of the employers that has reduced its number of staff is the Bentoel Group, the fourth-largest cigarette manufacturer in Indonesia. The company has offered voluntarily redundancy to 1,000 of its 8,000 employees.

　　The Bentoel Group's head of corporate and regulatory affairs, Shaiful Bahari Mahpar, said the voluntary redundancies had been on offer since Monday. He said they would not affect the company's production volume.

　　Shaiful said the company would work with only three to four factories to produce the same amount of cigarettes as previously produced by its 11 factories.

　　He said, however, the company had set a target to produce more than 20 billion cigarettes of all types this year, which is more than were produced in 2013.

　　"The voluntary redundancy program has nothing to do with a decrease in cigarette production. We can still produce the same amount of cigarettes in fewer factories," Shaiful said.

　　The program, he said, was offered as a consolidation measure following a decline in the national cigarette market and production, as well as an increase in production costs due to the implementation of new regulations regarding cigarette packaging.

　　"Other influencing factors include inflation, higher fuel prices and changes in city or regency minimum wages," Shaiful said.

　　Head of the East Java Manpower, Transmigration and Population Agency, Edi Purwinarto, said the provincial administration had prepared a special retraining program for cigarette factory workers such as training in entrepreneurship and transfers to other types of work.

　　"Governor Soekarwo has also sent a letter to the finance minister to ask for postponements in the imposition of some regulations considered as burdens on tobacco companies in East Java with regard to the fate of laid off tobacco workers," Edi said. Enditem