Redundancy Threat for Textile Workers

AROUND 500,000 workers in the textile and textile products (TPT) industry face the threat of being made redundant. Continuingly increasing fuel prices and electricity tariffs have made hundreds of textile companies on Java and Bali halt production.

Benny Soetrisno, Chairman of the Indonesian Textile Association (API), reported during a meeting last week with the Industry Commission at the House of Repre