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...factory on the outskirts of Jakarta wondering if she, too, should be counted as a victim. Yasin, 30, worked for 11 years as a cloth cutter on the assembly lines of a shoe manufacturer, but a month ago her employer was forced to close after U.S. athletic gear giant Nike stopped ordering sneakers. Yasin has been looking for work, but now she has begun to despair. "Many orders from America could be moved away from Indonesia" she says, in the wake of the Bali blast. "It could make it more difficult for me to find...
...hometown," she says. Today, the cavernous buildings housing the assembly lines where she used to work are padlocked. The union and the factory's workers are camped out in the one building they have access to, which houses the union office and what used to be the "Nike School," where the sneaker company ran a supplemental education program. They intend to stay there, says Ahmad Saukani, the 35-year-old vice chairman of the company union, until they get fair severance pay. The target of the workers ire is PT Doson Indonesia, the company that ran the factory...
...Nike has offered them aid?microloans to start their own businesses, continued health care, and an offer to tell other suppliers to hire the laid off workers. But the factory is likely doomed. Chris Helzer, director of external affairs for Nike in Southeast Asia, says the company stopped placing orders with Doson because their product was substandard...
...Overall, Nike, which accounts for about 120,000 Indonesian jobs, is not reducing its business in Indonesia, even after the Bali attack, Helzer says. But the company has been gradually shifting production elsewhere. In 1998, Indonesia accounted for 34% of Nike's total footwear output; this year that share will be in the "high 20s," according to Helzer. Meanwhile, Vietnam has skyrocketed from zero in 1995 to about 15% of production and Thailand's share has increased to about 15%. China remains the heavyweight, accounting for nearly 40% of production this year. In Indonesia, "We didn't see a whole...
...brightest spot in a city plagued by chronic electrical power shortages. Meanwhile, across the Yalu River in the Chinese city of Dandong, new, white buildings rise above the riverbank, traffic clogs the streets, and moving walkways roll through a local shopping mall past stores stuffed with Nike shoes and Coca-Cola...