This study examines the economy-wide impacts of cigarette excise tax reform in Indonesia using Input-Output (IO) analysis. 

The Macroeconomic Impacts of Tobacco Taxation in Indonesia: 2025 Update

This study aims to understand policymakers' views, assessments of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT), aspirations, and opinions regarding the current Tobacco Products Excise policy and the direction of its future reform.

Support and Barriers to Achieving Health Targets Through Cigarette Excise Policy in Indonesia: In-Depth Interviews with Policymakers Using a SWOT Framework

This study aims to model the impact of increases in cigarette excise taxes, including various scenarios for simplifying the tariff tier structure.

CISDI's "Developing a Tobacco Control Roadmap" study uses a mixed-methods approach to produce a situation analysis on tobacco products excise policy reform in Indonesia, in collaboration with the Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS) and a coalition of partners. 

Developing a Tobacco Control Roadmap

This study aims to comprehensively understand the position and dynamics of Tobacco Products ≈ policy within the national governance system. 

Tobacco Products Excise in the National Policy Landscape

2025 has marked eleven years of CISDI’s journey in championing equitable and community-centered health development. The various milestones we have achieved are not merely accomplishments but also opportunities for collaboration to create an even broader impact. 

Annual Report CISDI 2025

Based on Susenas 2017–2024 data, this study analyzes cigarette affordability trends and elasticity in Indonesia, with key implications for tobacco excise policy.


Cigarette Affordability in Indonesia: Recent Trends and Elasticity

Using the Tobacconomics simulation model for the 2025–2027 period, this study evaluates cigarette excise reform scenarios in Indonesia and their impact on government revenue and public health.

Raising and Simplifying the Cigarette Excise Tax in Indonesia: Simulated Revenue Gains and Public Health Benefits

This policy brief was developed to demonstrate the negative impacts of the excise tax policy that grants special treatment to hand-rolled clove cigarettes.

The Path to Excise Tax Reform: Ending Preferential Treatment for Hand-Rolled Kretek Cigarettes

This study examines the prevalence and nature of illicit cigarettes in six major Indonesian cities by conducting a littered empty-pack survey. The findings provide robust evidence to support policymakers in enhancing enforcement efforts, improving tax compliance, and reducing the distribution.

Illicit Cigarettes Consumption: Empty Packs Survey in Six Indonesian Cities

This study examines the impact of cigarette prices, parental smoking habits, and exposure to secondhand smoke on smoking initiation among young people in Indonesia. The research in this study complements investigations into the impact of cigarette prices and social factors as determinants of smoking

Impact of Cigarette Prices and Social Factors on Youth Smoking Initiation in Indonesia

Nearly a year after the Health Law was officially enacted, the government has yet to ratify the draft of Government Regulations pertaining to  the implementation of Omnibus Health Law. The drafting of the Government Regulation on Health as a derivative regulation must be completed no later than one year after the Law No. 17/2023 concerning Health was signed by President Joko Widodo on August 8, 2023.

Call for President Jokowi to Enact The Draft of Government Regulation on Health: The Coalition of Public Health Observers Highlights Four Key Substantive Points

The findings reveal a strong positive correlation between cigarette price increases and the likelihood of smoking cessation among adult smokers in Indonesia, emphasizing the importance of more effective tobacco taxation policies.

The Impact of Cigarette Prices on Adult Smoking Cessation in Indonesia 

The cheap cigarettes and the widespread presence of informal retailers of loose cigarettes represent a challenge in reducing tobacco consumption among Indonesian adolescents. This study presents qualitative and quantitative findings on the association between loose cigarette purchases among adolesce

The Association between Loose Cigarette Purchase and the Frequency, Intensity, and Initiation of Cigarette Use among Adolescents : A Mixed-methods Study in Indonesia

The risky consumption behavior influences the high health burden due to diseases in several health services. Therefore, in addition to health policies, the government has built a mechanism to control consumption, one of which is through the implementation of excise taxes.

Investing in public health through excise taxes, why is it important?

CISDI has just finished a series of roadshows to screen the documentary film "Di Balik Satu Batang" in three cities: Medan, Solo, and Palu. This film presents a portrait of the reality of laborers and tobacco farmers in the cigarette business ecosystem and counteracts the opinion that tobacco excise will harm tobacco farmers and laborers.


Countering the Narrative of Excise Taxes Harming Tobacco Farmers and Laborers, CISDI Holds Documentary Film Screening in Three Cities

To counteract the misleading narrative about excise tax and workers' welfare, CISDI produced a documentary on the lives of tobacco workers.

CISDI Documentary Film Behind One Cigarette: Counteracting the Narrative on Tobacco Farmers and Laborers

This study highlights that tobacco spending crowds out household budgets on essential commodities such as food, clothing, housing, education, and health care. The simulation reveals that reducing tobacco spending will significantly increase household spending on essential commodities.

The Crowding-out Effect of Tobacco Consumption in Indonesia

Smoking households divert 11% of their budget to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products. Tobacco spending could be deemed as wasteful spending for three main reasons: (1) it does not contribute to calorie intake, (2) it diverts resources from spending on essential commodities, and (3) it adversel

The Impoverishing Effect of Tobacco Use in Indonesia

The Ku Kira Ku Sehat Festival emphasizes the importance of preventing non-communicable diseases caused by unhealthy lifestyles and consumption, and the importance of support from policy elements.

Ku Kira Ku Sehat, Raising Health Awareness Through A Fun Festival

This research attempts to explore the direction of changes in smoking status and behavior after more than ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic and the determinants of changes in smoking status and behavior by collecting nationally representative data of mobile phone users in Indonesia.

Changes in Smoking Status and Behavior After Ten Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

The cigarette excise rates increased by an average of 12% was just announced by the Ministry of Finance on 13 December 2021. This increase is clearly lower compared to the past two years which reached 12.5% (2021) and 23.5% (2020). However, simplifying the excise tax rate groups from 10 to 8 groups should be appreciated as it potentially enables a reduction in the variety of cheap cigarettes and the prevalence of smokers themselves.

Indonesia in 2022, Rising the Cigarette Excise Tax and Simplifying the System

The anticipated financial and health consequences of children's exposure to smoking on malnutrition have raised global concerns. This publication presents CISDI findings that reinforce the idea that paternal smoking may increase the risk of stunting, thinness, and overweight among their children.

Through thick and thin: Do parental smoking behaviors affect the children's stunting, thinness, and overweight status?

CISDI in collaboration with the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) has conducted a study to estimate the total health costs incurred during 2019 to deal with smoking-related diseases, including the cost borne by the Health Insurance Program.

The 2019 Health Care Cost of Smoking

National Children's Day is celebrated every July 23 as a tribute to the rights of children in Indonesia. Children belong to a vulnerable group whose rights must always be protected by the government. Children always have the right to be loved, understood, and surrounded by happiness.