A pride to Pekerti has a visit from Barbara Brower, one of the Pekerti founding initiator. Mrs. Barbara came with two volunteers from Holland, Herman and Yvonne Meijer. Herman Meijer is Senior Project Manager City of City Support Program, a program to assist local governments in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam to recovery, re-organization, and re-structure the cities in Aceh province that devastated by the disaster tsunami 2004.
For the purposes of that project, Herman and his wife will stay in Aceh until 2010. And while they were in Aceh, Yvonne wants to do something for the people of Aceh. Limitations information owned, encouraging them to find out and eventually they met with Barbara and she introduced them to the Pekerti.
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The earthquake that hit the area of Tasikmalaya encouraged Pekerti to provide assistance to the victims. On 5-6 September 2009 Pekerti assigned 2 staffs to go straight to the field see first hand the conditions of earthquake victims in Tasikmalaya.
Two areas visited by Pekerti were Regency of Ciamis and Tasikmalaya. There are 6 districts in Tasikmalaya and several areas in Ciamis which visited by Pekerti. In this visit Pekerti provide assistance in the form of money - which is distributed through head of local sub-district. Limited time make this aid is less than the maximum aside the area affected by the earthquake are spread far apart one region to another.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 14:55 pm the Indonesian community in West Java region shocked by 7.3 magnitude earthquake centered in Tasikmalaya. 7 days after the earthquake, various activities related to disaster response and evacuation has been carried out by the government with the helping from community.
Until the day Wednesday, September 9, 2009, at 18:00 pm, the victim died from Tasikmalaya earthquake were 80 people from 8 districts in West Java. Also reported as many as 47 people are listed as missing, 1158 people were injured and 186,637 people still displaced.
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Again Indonesia got earthquake disaster which now is centered at a depth of 30 km below the conscious Indonesia Ocean, or 142 km southwest Tasikmalaya, West Java. At 2:55 pm, local time, an earthquake with strength of 7.3 magnitude, the tremor was felt not only by West Java societies but also citizens of Jakarta which is about 380 km far from Tasikmalaya even be felt by people in Bali and Sumatra.
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As a Fair Trade activator institution in Indonesia, Pekerti always retain the commitment to implement the principles contained in the Fair Trade movement. One of the Pekerti done is to make promotion programs include the Fair Trade training given to the craftsmen Pekerti partners. As implementation of this Fair Trade promotion programs are then carried out a Fair Trade training for Pekerti’ craftsmen in Subang, West Java.
On August 19, 2009 Pekerti conducting Fair Trade training in one Pekerti craftsmen house, Warsa, at Binong village, Subang, West Java.18 crafters of the 3 crafters groups in the area of Subang present in this training. With enthusiasm and hope to get the knowledge you know about the Fair Trade and know better Pekerti craftsmen participated actively involved in each training session.
This training not only provides material that the introduction of what the Fair Trade and its principles, but also provides knowledge about who actually Pekerti and what is done by Pekerti. Introduction Pekerti deemed necessary because there are a few crafters who do not know about Pekerti, since they new producers who cooperated with Pekerti. With participatory methods and group discussions, Fair Trade material submitted to the artisans so that they can better understand what’s Fair Trade. In this training, Pekerti, focuses on 4 out of 10 of Fair Trade principles, capacity development, gender equality, working conditions and environmental principles. This is should be done because of the limited time and the condition in crafters.
Active involvement of the crafters in this training is also because they thing that this training is very useful to them, other than to add their insight and to know each other well among fellow crafters. Expectations of the craftsmen can be fulfilled in this training, because they got knowledge of Pekerti, the Fair Trade and also be familiar with other groups in Subang. However, it should be concerned that in order to get better understanding and willingness to implement the 10 principles of Fair Trade, this kind of Fair Trade training and socialization can not be implemented only once to each producer but it should be a continuously training and its evaluation of the understanding and implementation of the training result. Unfortunately, to held continuous training it bounded by the limited fund that Pekerti have.
Dated August 11, 2009, Pekerti commemorate exactly 34 years of its existence in the community, dedication to the development of handicrafts in Indonesia. Attended by all staff and one member of a foundation builder, Pekerti held a simple celebration. Gratitude for the grace of God to Pekerti can survive for 34 years in the various crises that occur. Not forgetting to pray and hope offered to Pekerti so it become more develop in order to remain able to fulfill the vision and mission, beside that Pekerti can continue to contribute to the nation of Indonesia, with the continued to raise welfare of the community are also stakeholders Pekerti.
Back, Pekerti honored with the arrival of one Pekerti’s buyer, Ten Thousand Villages Canada, which has more than 20 years of cooperation with Pekerti. Ten Thousand Villages, Canada, which had existed since 1968, sent Marilyn Price, product development staff, to visit Pekerti. Marilyn was in Indonesia from date 1 to 3 August 2009. In addition to strengthening trade relations have been made by both sides, the visit was also intended Marilyn to discuss business plans between the two sides.
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Other programs conducted by Pekerti to promote the Fair Trade to the community by hold a craft bazaar. Craft bazaar was hold in July for three days from 28-31 July 2009. The Bazaar was conducted in front of the Pekerti office in Jakarta. The target customer of this bazaar is the communities around the Pekerti office and wider community in Jakarta.
Bazaar which has many times held by Pekerti this time providing goods such as handicrafts, ornaments, musical instruments, toys, tools, household appliances, home decoration etc.
From the results of monitoring of the stand guard at this bazaar, the visitors who come and buy the product is very enthusiastic. They are using the opportunity to get handicraft products from Indonesia.
Pekerti is a Fair Trade Organisation in Indonesia that very active in Promoting Fair Trade. In World Fair Trade Celebration 2009, with the theme “Fair Trade creates the right climate” Pekerti held three programs those are :
Pekerti’s Annual Meeting
First, annual meeting that was conducted on March 16th , 2009 in Yogyakarta, attended by head of foundation board, Pekerti’s staffs from Jakarta and Yogyakarta also the representatives of the producers from Yogyakarta, West Java, East Java and Bali.
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On Apil 17th 2009, there was a changing position at Pekerti. Imam Pituduh, the director of Pekerti was replaced by Mochamad Ichwani, a man who involve in fair trade with Pekerti for almost twenty years. Furthermore, Imam Pituduh join the board members of Pekerti. Hopefully, through this position replacement, Pekerti can help the marginalized community, both through community development and business development maximally. To all Pekerti’s best friends, Pak Imam said thanks for all cooperation, friendly and sharing during this time and he apologies if he did any mistakes in the past.
Even though, he was not a Director in Pekerti anymore, he will still be active in campaign Fair Trade and Social Entrepreneurship in both Indonesia and where ever his experiences and skills can be utilized.
A pride to Pekerti has a visit from Barbara Brower, one of the Pekerti founding initiator. Mrs. Barbara came with two volunteers from Holland, Herman and Yvonne Meijer. Herman Meijer is Senior Project Manager City of City Support Program, a program to assist local governments in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam to recovery, re-organization, and re-structure the cities in Aceh province that devastated by the disaster tsunami 2004.
