Indonesia Cracks Down on Used Clothing Imports

Government officials last week destroyed $5.3 million worth of illegally imported secondhand clothing in a bid to safeguard the domestic textile, apparel and footwear industries.

”What has been done today is part of the government’s effort to protect the micro, small and medium enterprises,” said the Indonesian minister for cooperatives and small and medium enterprises, Teten Masduki.

In a press conference, trade minister Zulkifli Hasan…