With its many successful designers and businesswomen, Indonesia is seen as the Mecca of Muslim fashion. According to a researcher’s article published in The Conversation, this industry exploits thousands of underpaid seamstresses in home-based tailoring workshops.
Indonesia, an archipelago with 273.5 million Muslims, is a huge market for Islamic fashion, valued at around 11.5 billion euros. A flourishing industry, driven by creators and entrepreneurs who display “prosperous and cosmopolitan lifestyles wrapped in Islamic values”, relief Annisa R. Beta, professor of cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, in an article published in The Conversation and taken over by the Jakarta Post.
My research shows that behind the glittering businesses of Indonesian Islamic fashion, female workers are being exploited. These creators and business leaders are indifferent to the condition of the workers.
From the 2010s, under the impetus of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (in power between 2004 and 2014), the sector consortium began to organize events to promote Muslim fashion. “Designers like Dian Pelangi and Ria Miranda quickly rose to fame representing Indonesia at the
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