The United Development Party and the Prosperous Justice Party, the two Islamic political parties of Indonesia, plan to introduce a bill in parliament to put a ban on drinks with more than 1% of alcohol.

Currently, the bill is being discussed in the House of Representatives. Some officials believe that the ban would negatively hit tourism industry.

Indonesia Institute president Ross Taylor was quoted by foodbev.com as saying: “There’s a lot of people in Indonesia right now taking the view, and they might not be wrong, that if you look at the Western world, and what alcohol is doing to young people, we don’t want that in Indonesia and we want to ban alcohol.

"The problem, of course, is if you ban it, you then create this enormous black market."

“There’s a lot of discussion in Indonesian society about the damage alcohol does to the wider community. The problem, of course, is if you ban it, you then create this enormous black market and it causes a whole lot of other problems.

“But in Bali, especially, there’s a very strong feeling that it’s the last thing you’d want to do, because if tourists can’t have a beer or wine on the beach, the potential consequences for tourism are going to be very severe indeed.”

The bill is being objected by the country's tourism and hospitality sectors.

Currently, the ban has been in place since May in the province of Papua, and the port city of Surabaya in Java.