JAKARTA: Indonesia will tighten customs checks at small ports to crackdown on the illegal import of second-hand shoes, the industry ministry said on Monday (Mar 6), responding to a Reuters report that found footwear donated to a recycling scheme in Singapore
A six-month Reuters investigation published on Feb 25 found that ten pairs of shoes the news agency donated to a recycling scheme run by US petrochemicals giant Dow and the Singapore government were exported for resale in Indonesia.
In 2015, Indonesia banned the import of second-hand clothing and footwear over concerns about hygiene, as well as to protect the local textile industry. Reuters reporter Joe Brock negotiates with a vendor to buy his own pair of second-hand shoes back, after tracing them via a tracking device, in Jakarta, Indonesia in this screenshot taken from a video on Nov 1, 2022. Sport Singapore, shoe recycling partners apologise for ‘lapse’ after footwear found for sale in Indonesia
"The practice of illegal importation of used shoes must be stopped because it has a bad impact on the domestic footwear industry."
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