More than 2,000 students and volunteers teamed up in a massive planting of 2,000 mangroves to support the ecological restoration of Ange Kapuk Conservation Park, Sunday July 20, 2008. Swisscontact’s Local Foundation, Yayasan Swisscontact Indonesia organized the event with supports from PT. Kapuk Naga Indah (KNI) and the City Government of Jakarta. “We’re not just planting the mangroves and leaving them. But continued maintenance and rehabilitation must sustain, otherwise this action will be useless” said Mr. Fauzi Bowo, the Governor of Jakarta who participated in the event. Executive Director of Yayasan Swisscontact Indonesia, Ms. Dollaris R Suhadi said “this action is to demonstrate that we are all concerned with the degradation of mangrove forest, and committed to preserve it as this will protect us from potential environmental disasters.
State Secretary Mr. Jean Daniel Gerber from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) of Switzerland, visited Swisscontact’s Jakarta Office on 9 July 2008. He was accompanied by the Swiss Ambassador Mr. Bernardino Regazzoni and a high level delegation. They were briefed on Swisscontact’s on-going activities and potential areas for future collaboration by the Country Director, Mr. Peter Bissegger. The delegation also viewed a marketplace representing SC Indonesia’s country portfolio.
Right after the tsunami and earthquake in Aceh and Nias, Medan become a hub for transit and logistics for aid missions. Therefore, the SPAN project initiated their operation at Gedung Mandiri Lantai 3 Jalan Imam Bonjol No. 16 D which located in the heart of Medan. As the situation in Banda Aceh began to improve, SPAN moved it’s operations to Banda Aceh, which guarantees both a prompt ability to respond to changes as well as direct access to the beneficiaries. In June 2008, all SPAN-MTU operations were moved to Jalan Teuku Umar Lingkungan Glee Geurah No. 1 Seutui Banda Aceh Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. This step will be enable the project to fulfill its commitment to establish closer coaching and mentoring processes for the beneficiaries.
Swisscontact, together with the Economic Development and Financing Facility (EDFF) have launched a new program, called Peningkatan Ekonomi Kakao Aceh (PEKA). Addressing the development of the cocoa sub-sector in the Aceh province, this program will reach out into five selected districts and 12.500 cocoa farmers throughout the province.
Prior to the program’s implementation, the MoU between […]
H.E. Mr. Heinz Edmund Walker, the new Swiss Ambassador, and Mr. Joerg Schneider representative of SECO (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) visited Swisscontact on February 9th 2010. The Regional Director for SE Asia, Mr. Peter Bissegger gave a briefing on Swisscontact activities and achievements.
Five years after the tsunami, SPAN comes to an end in December 2009. At the occasion of the project phase-out, Swisscontact invited the Government and development partners to a seminar on ‘Business Recovery in Aceh’ that took place in Jakarta on the 17th of November 2009. The purpose of the event was to share results […]
