TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta Metropolitan Police have successfully exposed the illegal trade of hundreds of bales of imported second-hand clothing, often referred to as balpres. Authorities seized ...

Sellers from the country have become a reliable source of sought-after labels, finding high value in discarded items. By Ezra Marcus Maybe it was the pandemic, or growing concerns about the ...

In Indonesia, it is illegal to import second-hand clothes, for health and economic reasons. But this has not stopped syndicates from taking advantage of the country’s porous borders, weak enforcement ...

A customer visits a secondhand clothes shop in the Harajuku district of Tokyo - Copyright AFP Philip FONG A customer visits a secondhand clothes shop in the Harajuku ...