Jakarta, Feb. 21 -- House member Bane Raja Manalu has asked the government to find ways to contain the larger fallout of the planned closure of PT Sanken Indonesia's factory.

"The government must be proactive in responding to this issue. The rights of employees facing layoffs must be upheld, and we need to assess whether this poses a risk of deindustrialization," Manalu expounded here on Friday.

As a member of Commission VII of the House of Representatives (DPR), which oversees industrial affairs, he emphasized that the closure of the PT Sanken factory should serve as a warning about the threat of deindustrialization, which occurs when the manufacturing sector declines.

He said that deindustrialization can be measured by a decline in t...