Jakarta Post, 25 May 2009
The 2003 government regulation on value-added and luxury taxes was powerful enough to stop the smuggling of used, luxury cars from Singapore to Batam as it also bans such imports.
However, smuggling activities have recently been on the rise again especially since Batam was designated as a Free Trade Zone (FTZ) area together with the neighboring Bintan and Karimun Islands.
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