Workers clashed with police at a factory in South Jakarta that supplies shoes for Adidas and Mizuno on Oct. 18. According to the local police, 13 people were injured among whom five workers, six police and two students. Former employees of PT Panarub Dwikarya Benoa (PDB) asked to be reinstated, alleging that their dismissal in July was due to a strike in which they demanded that that their pay should be aligned with the statutory increase in the minimum wage. Adidas issued a statement after the July strike urging the factory to rehire the workers and pay the wages it owed to them, pledging not to place any new orders until the dispute was resolved. Under Adidas workplace standards, the factory is obliged to pay back wages from when the minimum wage was introduced in January 2012, even though PDB obtained a government waiver. Adidas reached out to Mizuno to secure its support and involvement in the matter.

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