The experience of COVID-19 exposed both the fragility of global supply chains in the garment industry and the shaky foundations of brand narratives around corporate social responsibility (CSR). Nowhere was this clearer than in Indonesia, where the garment industry, and in particular garment workers, were impacted enormously in 2020 by drops in demand and disruptions to global supply chains. The Indonesian government actively worked to try to keep factories producing for export open during the pandemic, but these measures were not enough to compensate for global contractions in the garment industry
