Mark Antony Jennings

"We hope President Habibie is willing to review the new regulation," president director of PT BAT Indonesia Tbk., Mark Antony Jennings, told the press after meeting with the president iat his residence.

Jennings said that the new tax scheme would not only inflict the producer, but also the employees who were threatened with losing their jobs.
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"We believe such a system will be able to accomplish all the government's objectives and will be beneficial for the government, the consumer and the manufacturers," said Jennings.

Meanwhile, BAT's commissioner, noted sociologist Selo Soemardjan, said that he had contributed inputs for the upcoming regulation about the maximum level of nicotine and tar content in the cigarette.

"The producers hope the government would be flexible on that matter to help them still be in business," he said.

In 2001 Mark Jennings, formerpresident of BAT's operations in south-east Asia, was "seconded" to theexport promotions department of the DTI.He held that job all through2001 as the government department to which he was "seconded" wasinvestigating the firm which employed him.Asked why it took on MrJennings while his firm was being investigated, a DTI spokesman said: