JAKARTA: Indonesia will consider banning all alcohol and putting drinkers in jail for up to two years.

The ban, which would decimate the night life in tourist haven Bali, has been proposed and listed on Indonesia's national parliamentary legislative agenda for next year.

But the chairman of Bali's Tourism Board, Ngurah Wijaya, said he would ''flatly reject'' any attempt to ban alcohol or jail drinkers. Drinking is ''part of the international world and we are here to attract tourists'', he said.

The Bill for a Ban on Alcoholic Drinks was drafted by the predominantly Islamic United Development Party, a member of the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's, governing coalition.

The strict ban should be ''applied nationwide within the territory of the unitary state of the republic of Indonesia'', the bill says.