Driving Indonesia's women-led weaving recoveryA worker creates batik designs at a workshop in Banda Aceh last month. (Photo: AFP)Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) suffered the most when the pandemic hit Indonesia in early 2020. Traditional fabric and weaving businesses have born witness to this hardship. Traditionally, those mostly involved in the fabrics and weaving industry are women. Hence, they provide an enabling environment to scale up the Indonesian cultural textile industry that will facilitate a swift recovery beyond the pandemic.
