Presentation Public Support to Increase Cigarette Price and Excise

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Public Support to Increase Cigarette
Price and Excise to Finance UHC
Hasbullah Thabrany dan Zahrina
Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies

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Background
Prevalence of Smoker

Cigarette Production
and Excise

Deficite of JKN

• 27% in 1995 to
36.5% in 2013
• 1.7% in 1995 to an
estimate of 6.7% in

2015 (Woman).
• from 7.1% in 1995 to
20.5% in 2013 (Young
Smoker).
• 67% Man are smoker
• 217.400 death per
Year

• 222.7 billion sticks in
2005 to 348 billion
sticks in 2015
• IDR 32.6 Trillion in
2005 to IDR 139.6
Trillion
• IDR 330 Trillions
spent for cigarette
• Health Expenditure
IDR 71.1 Trillions
(MoF, 2015)


• JKN covered 65% of
the population
• claim ratios of JKN of
111.5% in 2014 and
115.1% in 2015
• Mobilize Fund from
cigarette excise and
earmarking the
revenue

DO PEOPLE SUPPORT???
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Perbandingan Harga Rokok di Negara ASEAN
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12

10

8

6

4

2

0

Indonesia

Philippines

Vietnam


Thailand
Harga $

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Cambodia

Lao DR

Myanmar

Malaysia

Brunei

Timor Leste

Singapore

International dollars (at purchasing power parity)


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Objective


This study explored the possibility the people’s support in
increasing cigarette prices and exice to meet financial shortage
of the JKN.
• This polling conducted to explore cigarette consumption and
perception of  price increase.

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Method

Dec
2015

Jan
2016

Phone Survey
Systematic Random Sampling

by the interval of  20.000 of mobile phones numbers.

POLLING
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N=1000

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Result and Discussion
Respondent Characteristic
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Male (61,0%) Female (39,0%)
Average age (32,9) in range 14-78 years old
Education majority graduated high school (50,7%)
Income of Respondent 1 million – 3 million (38,8%)
Occupation distribution; private sector (26,2%), non formal sector (20,9%),
Others (18,6%)
6. 56,5% are JKN Participant
7. 41,5% are smoker
8. Penerima Bantuan Iuran (PBI) (13,2%), PBPU (66,9%), Private
Sector&Governmental Employee (19,9%)

9. Participant who use JKN (2,7%)
10.Came from 34 province
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Characteristics

of

smokers

and

N members

• The polling (65.9% males and 3.3% females) showed
41.3% respondents consume 1-2 pack cigarette per
day with spending of IDR 450 – 600 thousands per

month.
• The proportion of non smoker who supported the
earmarking was hicher (83.4% ) compared to
smokers (75.9%).
• The proportion of smokers who know that ciagarette
is harmful reached 96.8% but the large majority of
them had difficulties in quit smoking.
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Merk Rokok
Sampoerna

Persentase (%)

189


45,5

Djarum

49

11,8

Gudang Garam

49

11,8

8

1,9

Dunhill


16

3,8

Lain-Lain

34

8,2

Marlboro

35

8,4

Surya

35

8,4

415

100

Bermacam-macam

Jumlah
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Jumlah

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Earmarking Revenues for JKN

“special insurance for smokers” or Sintax for JKN”
The highest ecxise as percent of retail prices is charged by Egypt with
73.3% of cigarette price goes to tax, followed by Thailand (66.59%) and
the Philippine (63.55%).
Local Tax : 10% of excise revenue for local government in Indonesia
Philippine has implemented sin tax with 80% of incremental revenue goes
to the National Health Insurance Program (PhilHealth), MDGs, and Health
Awareness program. (paul, 2016)
Earmarking in England, California USA, Thailand, Australia, New
Zaeland, Egypt

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Raising Cigarette Prices and Excise to

Public Support

ance JKN

% Smoked
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
% 10
0

Raised Cigarette Prices
90.0
65.9

80.0
49.2
40.4

41.5

3.3

10.4

80.3

70.0
60.0
50.0
% 40.0
30.0

19.7

20.0
10.0
.0

Agreed

Disagree

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Proportion (%) of Respondent Who Aggreed and Disgreed on Raising Prices and Excise of
Cigarettes to Financing of the National Health Insurance, 2016
 

Smoking
Non smokers
Smokers
JKN membership
Non member
Member
Types of JKN Membership
PBI
Employed (PPU)
Self-employed (PBPU)

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Disagreed (%)
 
16.5
24.0

Agreed (%)
 
83.5
76.0

p

20.7
18.9

79.3
81.1

0.989

18.3
17.9
20.5

81.7
82.1
79.5

 
0.797
0.793

 
0.005
 

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Aged
60 years
Education
< 6 years
6 -12 years
> 12 years
Reported monthly inome (IDR)
10 millions

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Disagreed (%)

Agreed (%)

p

15.1
22.9
24.8
23.4
23.5

84.9
77.1
75.2
76.6
76.5

 
0.012
0.013
0.120
0.423

15.2
19.4
21.3

84.8
80.6
78.7

 
0.193
0.167

20.8
18.2
19.1
25.9

79.2
81.8
80.9
74.1

 
0.272
0.345
0.579

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Willingness to Reduce and Stop Smoking
Reduce smoking

%

50.0
45.0
40.0
35.0
30.0
25.0
20.0
15.0
10.0
5.0
.0

Stop Smoking
80.0

46.0

72.3

70.0

36.6

60.0
%
17.3

50.0
40.0
30.0
20.0
10.0
.0

14.5

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Conclusion









The prevalence of cigarette smoking is high because of prices of cigarette
is relatively cheap and it will affect health financing.
41.3% respondents consume 1-2 pack of cigarettes per day wasting up to
IDR 600 thousands per month per smokers.
Almost all smokers (96.8%) know that ciagarette is harmful for their
health.
More than 72.3% of smokers said that they would stop smoking if the
price of cigarette is above IDR 50,000 per pack.
This study found that large majority (80%) of non smokers and 76%
smokers supported increasing cigarette prices and excise to supplement
financing for the JKN.
Sintax Potential to increase additional revenue up to IDR 70 Trillion.
Increasing Cigarette Excise : WIN-WIN SOLUTION

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Recommendation
Further study to know how the legal and policy makers
support developing and implementing sin tax to finance JKN

Revising current Excise Law

excise revenues should also be earmarked

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