Textile issuer PT Pan Brothers Tbk. (PBRX) targets to add around 4,000 employees again in line with the increasing demand in the international market at the beginning of this year. Vice Chief Executive Officer of PT Pan Brothers Tbk. (PBRX) Anne Patricia Sutanto said the addition of employees was limited to maintain the company's productivity. "If nothing goes wrong, we need around 4,000 workers but our recruitment is incremental due to capacity building and natural turnover, because from time to time someone retires or resigns," said Anne via WhatsApp message, Wednesday (2/1/2022) .

Anne said the step was taken to maintain production capacity in line with the increase in demand for goods from overseas markets. However, he said the addition of the workforce does not guarantee that the demand generated will also increase proportionally.

"So even though demand can increase by 30 percent, we will keep it at 10 percent of the increase," he said.

Currently, PBRX is still the largest garment producer in Indonesia based on installed capacity with a total workforce as of 31 December 2020 of 30,508 employees and increasing as of 31 March 2021 to 31,473 employees.

As of June 30, 2021, the company has again recorded an increase in its workforce to 32,825 employees spread across 25 PBRX factories throughout Indonesia.

As is known, the textile issuer PT Pan Brothers Tbk. (PBRX) had posted a decline in sales performance and net profit until the third quarter of 2021. PBRX recorded sales of US$507.8 million or equivalent to Rp.7.24 trillion (the Jisdor rate of November 24, 2021, Rp.14,272 per US dollar) during the period from January to September 2021. This sales decreased by 3.05 percent from US$523.7 million.

Based on the company's financial report published Wednesday (11/24/2021), the company's sales until September 2021 were driven by export sales which rose 2.21 percent to US$472.2 million, from US$462 million year-on-year (Year-on-year). yo).

The company's local sales decreased significantly by 42.49 percent from US$62.9 million in the third quarter of 2020, to US$62.9 million in the third quarter of 2021.

Previously, the General Chair of the Indonesian Employers' Association or Apindo Hariyadi B. Sukamdani said that businessmen were still making efficient use of production costs, even though there was an increase in demand for goods from domestic and foreign markets.

The maneuver, said Hariyadi, can be seen from the small realization of labor absorption amid the solid expansion of the manufacturing industry at the beginning of this year. Meanwhile, Indonesia's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) recorded an expansionary figure of 53.7 in January 2022, a slight increase from the position in December last year at the level of 53.5.