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Indonesia: Moves to transfer factories overseas

Joint-venture firms are increasingly considering the transfer of factories oversea, a trend that may accelerate.

Even among domestic firms, there is the emergence of firms considering the transfer of factories overseas because of economic and social confusion as well as a radical labor union movement. Nevertheless, there are also many firms which are unable to decide for fear of troubles with employees in closing or maintaining factories.

According to a certain Taiwanese-affiliated firm, smallscale knitwear and apparel factories are withdrawing once and for all. In the case of factories on a sizable scale, however, they employ the method of reducing the scale of factories in Indonesia by taking time and transferring equipment gradually to a particular overseas country.

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