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An officer shows a container full with plastic waste at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 18, 2019 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Aditya Pradana Putra/Handout via REUTERS
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Wednesday submitted a proposal to parliament to levy excises on sugar – and artificially sugar-sweetened drinks as well as vehicles that emit carbon dioxide.
Indrawati also asked parliament to reconsider her proposal to impose an excise on plastic bags to cut plastic waste, which she first brought up in 2017 but has not yet been approved.
Reporting by Tabita Diela; Writing by Gayatri Suroyo; Editing by Shri Navaratnam
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