Xinhua News Agency, May 15, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency, Banaru Industrial, the contract factory of Adidas in Indonesia, reported that it would lay off thousands of employees. The company confirmed the news and said that it had laid off more than 1400 employees in order to make ends meet, totaling 1400 people. In response to the matter, Indonesian Labor Minister Ida Fauziyah told the media today that he will interview Banaru Industrial Company and plan to have a dialogue with the company and relevant departments responsible for labor relations to protect the rights of employees who have been laid off. In addition, Ida did not deny that many export-oriented shoe factories are still cutting jobs on a large scale because orders from Europe and the United States are falling.