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 […]
