The GYTS enhances countries’ capacity to monitor tobacco consumption and initiation of

tobacco use among youth, guides national tobacco prevention and control programmes, and
facilitates comparison of tobacco-related data at the national, regional and global levels. Results
from the GYTS are also useful for documenting the changes in different variables of tobacco
control measures in order to monitor implementation of different provisions of the tobacco
control law and relevant Articles of the WHO FCTC.

The rationale for Indonesia’s participation in the GYTS includes the following:
 Indonesia is the fifth-largest producer of tobacco leaf.
 Based on the National Baseline Health Research, the prevalence of smoking among
Indonesians aged 15 years and above increased from
34.2% in 2007 to 34.7% in 2010, and to 36.3% in 2013.
 Based on the National Baseline Health Research 2013, the percentages initiating and using
tobacco in each age group are: 5–9 years – 0.7%; 10–14 years – 9.5%; 15–19 years – 50.3%;
20–24 years – 26.7%; 25–29 years – 7.6%; >30 years – 5.2%.
 A study by the World Bank and WHO in 2005 found that low-income
 households spent 7.2% of their income on tobacco.
 Based on the National Baseline Health Research 2013, an average of 12.3 cigarettes sticks
are consumed per person per day at an average price of Rp 600.00 (US$ 0.04) per stick.
 Total medical expenditure on selected major diseases (629 017 hospitalized cases) attributed
to tobacco use in 2010 was Rp 1.85 trillion; these included chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, coronary heart disease, selected neoplasms/cancers and perinatal disorders.
 There have been no studies on youth tobacco use at the national level.