Indonesia

The Global fashion Agenda (GFA) has launched ‘The Circular Fashion Partnership: Indonesia’ as a cross-sectoral initiative aimed at developing effective circular fashion systems by capturing and recycling post-industrial textile waste.

The much-awaited report of the US International Trade Commission which looked at the export competitiveness of five Asian apparel-manufacturing countries has been released.

Indonesia is looking to reverse the environmental impact of textile waste, introduce the potential of circular textiles, create green jobs, and organise training programmes.

Workers across the fashion supply chain are being shortchanged by an absence of proper structures for collective bargaining, allowing perpetuation of a business model that relies on tight margins for suppliers and low worker wages, claims a new report.

Through grievance applications launched by the ILO and three federations in Indonesia’s textiles and garment sectors, garment workers can report their work complaints and/or voice aspirations for a better and more productive working environment.

A start-up straddling two continents is spinning an all-new yarn from a 100% biodegradable and 100% recyclable, regenerative but sadly forgotten tree that since time immemorial has been growing unabashed in the wild.

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) will submit a report by 30 August 2024 on the  export competitiveness of the apparel industries in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.

Even as Indonesia’s Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE) with its four subsidiaries flatly denies all allegations made in the recently released Pulping Borneo report, the publishers of the investigative study have dismissed the denials as “insufficient.” A texfash.com report.

In the eye of a greenwashing storm is one of the world’s largest pulp and paper companies, Indonesia’s Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE) and its subsidiaries, for deforesting thousands of hectares from across its supply chain, a Greenpeace investigation has revealed.

How a government-led movement against second-hand clothing in Indonesia will eventually pan out, time will tell, what cannot be negated is that this practice of thrifting could well emerge as a way of life to deal with economic challenges, or even a means to express issues of identity and social responsibility toward the environment.