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Why a commodities boom is not lifting Indonesia’s economy

As investment pours into mining projects, the country’s once-mighty manufacturing sector is stagnating and shedding jobs

Sri Lestari left her hometown as a teenager looking for work. Instead, she found a whole new life.

In 2000, the then 18-year-old travelled to the quaint town of Sukoharjo in the Central Java province, and was offered a job at PT Sri Rejeki Isman, one of Indonesia’s largest textile and garment manufacturers. Sritex, as the company was known, was thriving, supplying garments to global retailers such as Uniqlo, Walmart and foreign militaries.

It offered Sri more than just a job; one of her colleagues became her husband, and with their combined income they were able to build a family home among the paddy fields.

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