On November 6th 2008, Alliance of Independence Journalists Yogyakarta (AJI Yogyakarta), supported by Swisscontact Indonesia, held a discussion with regards to a book titled “Reporting Small Business, a Guide for Print Radio and TV Journalists”. Forty participants representing the media, local government, NGOs, BDS, students, scholars, and small business enterprise (SME) associations attended the event. “There are few books that talks about journalism and even SME, but now we have a good book which provide both perspective on the media and small businesses. This is the reason why participants were very enthusiastic,” said Bambang Muryanto, head of AJI Yogyakarta. The book, launched in mid 2008 by AJI Jakarta, answers the skills deficiency possessed by Indonesian journalists in covering issues facing small businesses.
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 […]