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View all search resultsFootwear exports to US unaffected by latest scare, radiation task force says
A spokesperson for the government's anti-radiation team has said that aside from two footwear shipments linked to the same contamination source in Banten, no other incidents have been reported in recent weeks.
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A member of the government’s cesium-137 task force operates a heavy vehicle on Oct. 20, 2025, during a decontamination program at the Modern Cikande Industrial Estate in Serang regency, Banten. (Antara/Angga Budhiyanto)
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xports of footwear to the United States “continue uninterrupted”, the government has said, following the recent return of two containers of locally made shoes over suspected radioactive contamination linked to a metal company in Serang, Banten.
“In the past four weeks, with detection devices installed at the Cikande [industrial estate] exit gate, no new contamination has been reported,” Bara Krishna Hasibuan, diplomacy and communication head of the cesium-137 task force told reporters on Monday on the sidelines of the US-Indonesia Investment report briefing by the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia (Amcham) and the US Chamber of Commerce.
“That means we’ve truly made significant progress in decontaminating the Cikande area,” Bara said.
He also noted that the contamination detected in the footwear shipments appeared to have occurred within “the same timeframe” from the “same source” as the earlier cesium-137 (Cs-137) contamination cases affecting shrimp and clove exports.
The incidents involving food products from Indonesia initially prompted US authorities to impose import restrictions after a probe confirmed the radioactive contamination.
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Bara told a press conference last week that the first container of contaminated footwear arrived back in the country around a month ago while the second shipment arrived on Oct. 29, after they were returned due to an alert raised by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
