Realizing the importance of strengthening the market by partnering with a reliable business partner, SMEP (Small Medium Enterprise Promotion) Project, funded by SDC, facilitated a business linkage between garment cluster of Cipulir, South Jakarta and PT. Bali Nirwana Garment (PT. BNG) - an apparel manufacturing export company. Contract will be given from PT BNG to Garment Producers in Cipulir to produce high quality denim. Therefore, it is necessary to train employees on skills development.
On February 16 2009, PT BNG HRD Manager, Ms Meaty, conducted a one-day assessment of an ongoing training of 25 employees in the regency of Karawang. The training focused on Quality Standard Sewing Skills held in Jakarta and Karawang. SMEP Project of Swisscontact Indonesia aims to increase competitiveness of garment cluster in South Jakarta. One of the innovative ways is establishing a promotional website, www.garmentindo.com , with support from IT students of Binus University, Jakarta. Details of SMEP project please click here
Aceh-Nias based projects of SPAN (Swiss Project for Business Recovery in Aceh and North Sumatra) and MTU (Mobile Training Units) participated the ‘CFAN 4: Celebration of Humanity’, on 13 – 14 February 2009, in Jakarta Convention Centre (JCC). CFAN 4 marked the final chapter of CFAN (Coordination Forum for Aceh and Nias) and its contribution to the large-scale reconstruction in Aceh and Nias. CFAN 4 presents a crucial opportunity to gather reconstruction partners once more and to recognize the works completed by the recovery players thus far. The forum also offers the appropriate venue to harness the wealth of knowledge and expertise in Aceh and Nias and compile the lessons learned in order to establish a lasting legacy to the recovery efforts. Lastly, CFAN 4 provides a forum to offer recommendations for the continuation of coordination post-BRR.
During this 2-days event, SPAN booth displayed various project information and achievements until the end of 2008 as well as beneficiaries’ testimonials. The SPAN Project assistance has reached 562 Micro Enterprises, 220 Small Enterprises and 33 Medium Enterprises. Through its assistance, 3.453 jobs have been sustained, 1.341 new jobs have been created, as well as profits of the supported enterprises increased, hence wages increased and job satisfaction of workers improved. MTU has improved the quality of vocational skills training, facilitated access to training and enhanced job placement. This mobile training has successfully trained 28 instructors and technicians from Aceh in eleven training modules, and enabled its instructors to successfully train 5,907 participants. MTU also facilitated internships for 945 MTU graduates. For more information of the SPAN project, please click www.span.or.id
On the first day of the event, Mr. Bernardino Regazzoni HE Ambassador of Swiss visited the booth accompanied by Swisscontact’s Country Program Director Mr. Peter Bissegger. Swisscontact Indonesia received a special appreciation from Mr. Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of the Repulblic of Indonesia, for taking part in the global partnership for rebuilding Aceh-Nias and also sharing the lessons learned on 24 January 2008.
The concept of ‘Public Value-Management in Development Cooperation’ was introduced by two researchers, Manuel Rothe and Urs Jaeger, from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland - Center for Leadership and Values in Society. Swisscontact facilitated the research by testing the methodology in the WiSATA Project in Labuan Bajo, Flores for three weeks. The preliminary case study was presented in front of staff and project managers of Swisscontact Indonesia, on 9th February 2009, followed by discussions. The process traces how poverty is affected by a development intervention and provides a structured qualitative process for evaluating the economic, social, aesthetical and ethical aspects of the intervention.
Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) is a program financed by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), and supports medium sized enterprises from emerging markets and markets in transition as well as Swiss and European importers. Facilitated by Swisscontact, SIPO conducted a mission to Indonesia to design a potential project on timber products development.
In order to get a broad knowledge on Indonesian wood industries and business, Mr. Boyko Doytchinov, Project Manager, Head of Programme Technical Products of SIPPO, visited Solo, Semarang and Jepara in Central Java in January 2009 when he met timber entrepreneurs, a wood related training centre, and timber processing equipment suppliers.
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 […]