Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moore: Twelve-year-olds working in [Indonesian] factories? That's O.K. with...
...unfair to include Knight's endorsement of a 14-year-old labor force while leaving out his subsequent pledge to make a transition to 16-year-olds (a difficult task, says Nike, given the workers' propensity for using "forged documents"). Second, Knight referred to his employees as "poor little Indonesian workers," a characterization that failed to convey the respect in which he held them. In both instances, Weinstein insisted, Phil had "misspoken." What would it take to make these two classic moments go away...
...book tour leads him to, he has no trouble unearthing some corporate atrocity that the rest of us took for granted. The movie climaxes in a rare interview between Moore and Nike CEO Phil Knight, in which Knight admits that he thinks it's okay for fourteen-year-old Indonesian girls to make his shoes. But Moore mishandles even this scene, relentlessly fishing for some explosive soundbite instead of trying to debate Knight...
Thanks for a balanced article on Indonesia's economic crisis [WORLD, March 23]. Fifty years ago, we Indonesians won independence, 20 years later we kicked out the Communist Party, and for 30 years we have been marching steadily toward prosperity. Then came the crisis. If we want to survive, we will have to follow the International Monetary Fund's prescriptions. But the conditions set by the IMF are not entirely fair. If we adhere to them completely, our economy will be the most open one in the world, but it will be controlled by the big, financially powerful multinational corporations...
President Suharto is testing the patience of Asians. If Indonesia goes down, there will be a devastating effect on the rest of Asia. We have seen Asian currencies dip every time he speaks of maintaining his anachronistic economic policies. The Indonesian economy is at the crisis stage, and international cooperation is crucial. Although President Suharto may be able to turn a blind eye to his people's demands, he cannot escape global economic realities. KOSHIRO YAMAOKA Bangkok...