Footwear shops along Jalan Cibaduyut, Bandung, West Java, are packed with customers. Some come to retrieve their orders of two-three pairs of shoes packaged in boxes, while others contemplate shoes on display racks.

But the real bustle happens behind the shops. In workshops spread across small alleys that are too small for cars, Cibaduyut’s shoemakers work to assemble footwear part by part. Amble is among the leather shoe brands that emerg