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 (March 6), responding to a Reuters report that found footwear donated to a recycling scheme in Singapore was shipped to Indonesia. A six-month Reuters investigation published on Feb 25 found that 10 pairs of shoes...
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.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 , responding to a Reuters report that found footwear donated to a recycling scheme in Singapore was shipped to Indonesia.
Reuters reporters, using location trackers hidden inside the soles of shoes, recovered sneakers it donated in Singapore at second-hand goods markets in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and on Batam, an island 19km south of Singapore. In a statement titled "dismantling the scandal of illegal imports of used shoes", Indonesia's Ministry of Industry said that as a result of the Reuters story it would increase checks at ports to intercept any illegal second-hand shoe shipments.
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