<![CDATA[Background: Community-level implementation of smoke-free policies depends on frontline actors’ capacity to transform regulatory provisions into practices that communities can understand, accept, and sustain. Objective: This study examined how health promotion officers at community health centers translate and operationalize the Smoke-Free Neighborhood Program in Depok, Indonesia. Methods: A qualitative multiple-case study was conducted across 11 initial program sites representing all districts of the city. Participants included 11 health promotion officers and four institutional stakeholders at the organizational and municipal levels. Data were collected through semi-structured, in-depth interviews, nonparticipant observation, and document review. The data were manually analyzed using deductive–inductive coding within the interactive framework of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña. Trustworthiness was strengthened through source and method triangulation, targeted participant verification, reflexive notes, and an audit trail. Results: The findings identified four complementary roles. Health promotion officers acted as educators who established a foundation of knowledge, policy translators who reframed regulatory language into messages of family protection, discretionary implementers who adapted implementation to resource constraints, and boundary spanners who connected actors and resources across organizational settings. The findings indicate that the operational form of policy is constructed through meaning translation, promotive operational discretion, and cross-organizational network activation. Conclusion: Sustaining smoke-free neighborhoods may require minimum resource support, cross-program teams, regularly updated communication materials, and institutionalized cross-sector coordination.]]>
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