Pollution in Indonesia

Seeing I am in the mood for South East Asian talk, I watched this recent document from Germany on a very polluted river in Indonesia:



Most of the chemical pollution is from the textile industry, which seems to have dozens of factories lining this river.

I missed a few minutes, but my son said that one factory guy's attitude was that as long as the waste water didn't make your hand feel itchy, it was OK to release into the river!  And then there was the rice contamination.  All very bad, and rather unclear how much the government might be doing to make and enforce standards.

So, there's another thing to feel guilty about:  apparently, Uniqlo (my preferred place to buy casual shirts) sources a lot of its material from these Indonesian factories.  (Also H&M, but its clothes seem designed for 20 year old stick insects, so I don't buy from them.)