JAKARTA: When Harijanto needed more workers to make Nike and Adidas sneakers at one of its factories outside the Indonesian capital Jakarta, he couldn’t make the numbers work.
Faced with one of world’s most generous payout packages for fired workers and having to navigate a complex minimum wage system, Harijanto said he couldn’t employ the extra people to expand his business.
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