Textiles
Jumbled Sales
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Every month hundreds of containers filled with secondhand clothes are unloaded in ports all over the country. The cheap apparel could endanger Indonesia's textile industry.
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On a hot Friday last week the Senen sidewalk was bustling. A group of youngsters were jostling each other at a busy secondhand clothes counter. They did not notice the heat at all. Sweating profusely, they were intent on finding a bargain. "Aha, I got it!" shouted one young man as he triumphantly displayed a baseball jersey branded FUBU, priced at no more than a few thousand rupiah.
"If not for these jumble sales, I could onl
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