TPSA organized a two-day introductory workshop on the WTO trade facilitation agreement (TFA) and measures to initiate a dialogue on Indonesia’s upcoming challenges and opportunities in implementing the TFA. Indonesian public- and private-sector representatives discussed the role of the private sector in trade facilitation reforms and implementation. Learn more at:
https://nbfe4d.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018-04-24-Activity-Brief-1211.11.5.pdf

Indonesia eyes increase in coffee export to Canada

– Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Indonesia is eyeing an opportunity to increase specialty coffee exports to Canada by conducting the Indonesian Specialty Coffee: From Farm to Cup in British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Head of the Indonesian Trade Promotion Center (ITPC) Vancouver branch, Rafika Arfani, said that the government sees a potential increase in Indonesian coffee exports, along with the increased coffee consumption of Canadian people.

Read the full article at https://en.antaranews.com/news/115835/indonesia-eyes-increase-in-coffee-export-to-canada

The TPSA Project hosted a training session on foreign direct investment to assist the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) on Tuesday, May 8 at The Crown Hotel, Jakarta. Sessions included target markets and industries, innovation in investment promotion, and implementing an annual BKPM business development plan for FDI attraction to Indonesia. Learn more at https://tpsaproject.com/event/workshop-on-indonesias-competitive-position-for-fdi/.

BANDUNG – The Canada-Indonesia Trade and Private Sector Assistance Project (TPSA) and the Business Export Development Organization (BEDO) are marking Fashion Revolution Day on Tuesday, April 24, with an all-day event at the Bandung Creative Hub.

Activities include talks on how the Fashion Revolution is working to reduce the environmental impact of footwear and apparel production, a movie screening, a fashion design contest, natural dye and up-cycling workshops, and product exhibitions from small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Fashion Revolution Day takes place annually on the anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh.

The global “slow fashion” movement has developed to counter the dominant “fast fashion” business model now in place. Fast fashion focuses on cheap production and rapid delivery to markets. This model requires the use of substantial resources, such as water, cotton, chemical, dyes, and cheap labor. Research from the World Resource Institute claims that 2,700 liters of water is required to produce just one cotton T-shirt—equivalent to 2½ years of one person’s water consumption.

The objective of the event is:

• To advocate and disseminate information on more environmentally friendly apparel and footwear production and consumption patterns to a wider SME audience and to the general public.
• To provide a networking forum for like-minded apparel and footwear SMEs that are interested in greener production.

Circular economies promote production and consumption patterns that generate as little waste and emissions as possible. In addition, production and end-use waste and emissions are recycled, re-used, or re-acquired as raw materials for other products. Up-cycling is the process of transforming used or waste materials into better products. Some SMEs from Bali and Yogyakarta, which have already begun up-cycling, will also be participating in the exhibition.

The event takes place between 9 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. The main activities are:

• TPSA’s success stories from the SCORE-Cleaner Production Program
• Exhibition of SME partners’ products and cleaner production progress and of Yogyakarta and Bali-based SMEs on circular fashion
• Talks and a movie screening on what the Fashion Revolution and Circular Fashion mean and how they impact the industry
• Natural dye and up-cycling workshops
• Fashion show and design contest
• Press conference

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About the TPSA Project

The Canada-Indonesia Trade and Private Sector Assistance Project (TPSA) is funded by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada. The project is executed by The Conference Board of Canada and the primary implementation partner is the Directorate General for National Export Development, Ministry of Trade of Indonesia.

The project helps Indonesian apparel and footwear small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to access Canadian and International markets, as well as to improve their environmental performance. One of TPSA’s main environmental improvement activities is to help participating apparel and footwear SMEs to plan and implement cleaner production measures suitable to their capacity and needs. Six apparel and five footwear SMEs participated in the program, which began in September 2017.

Vancouver, April 19, 2018 —Indonesian coffee producers will be whetting the taste buds of coffee lovers across the Pacific Northwest in April. Through the work of the Canada-Indonesia Trade and Private Sector Assistance Project (TPSA), these producers will attend the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Coffee Expo in Seattle, followed by a Coffee Promotion Event in Vancouver on April 24 and 25.

Taking place between April 19 and 22, 2018, Coffee Expo provides coffee producers with an opportunity to display their products to industry professionals in a one-stop shop format. More than 13,000 people participated in the 2017 Specialty Coffee Expo.

Four participants— Arinagata Cooperative, Meukat Komuditi Gayo, Orang Utan Coffee Lestari and Redelong Organic Cooperative—are making their second consecutive appearance at SCA Coffee Expo. Kokowagayo, a women-owned and-managed cooperative, is attending for the first time.

The Coffee Promotion Event in Vancouver will connect TPSA Gayo Arabica Coffee producers with Canadian roasters and importers. Both the Indonesian and Canadian participants will learn more about each other’s background, products and markets.

The event takes place on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, 1133 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Nusa Coffee Company is hosting in collaboration with Los Beans and Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade International Trade Promotion Center (ITPC) in Vancouver. Owned by native Indonesians, Nusa Coffee Company is a Canadian importer of premium coffee beans from the archipelago’s biologically diverse islands. Los Beans Trading Inc. (Los Beans) sources the finest beans from around the world, working with partners that share their stance on social, environmental and economic sustainability.

“At Nusa Coffee, we thrive on three elements: people, product, and process. Our connection with Gayo coffee producers incorporates all of those elements, specifically in realizing our vision to bring traceable and sustainable coffee beans into Canadian market.   We expect the best possible outcome from this event, so we could continue to pave the way of making the concept From Farm to Cup into reality,” said Liza Wajong, owner of Nusa Coffee Company.

“After the visiting of Gayo last November, I think Los Beans can do something for the coffee farmers. We  will work with Indonesian coffee farmers more closely, to present a great cup of Gayo coffee to Canadian coffee lovers,” said Mike Li, President of Los Beans.

Indonesian coffee was selected as a TPSA target commodity due to its strong potential for exports to the Canadian market. Indonesia ranks as the sixth largest supplier of coffee to Canada, accounting for 5.1 per cent of the Canadian import market. Both the Indonesian share of the market and the size of the market are growing. The total Canadian import market almost doubled between 2006 and 2016 (from US$320 million to US$623 million in 2016), a compound annual growth rate of 6.9 per cent.

Indonesia’s International Trade Promotion Center are a network of 19 offices located in 18 countries, and the Vancouver office of ITPC was founded in 2009.

The five Indonesian participants at Specialty Coffee Expo and the Coffee Promotion events are:

• Arinagata Cooperative is a Gayo Arabica Coffee producer and exporter specializing in organic coffee. The cooperative has 2,168 select coffee farmers on 2,436 hectares of coffee plantations covering 39 villages in Aceh Tengah district of Aceh Province, Indonesia.
• Kokowagayo (short for Koperasi Kopi Wanita Gayo) is a women-owned and -managed Gayo Arabica Coffee cooperative. Founded in 2014, it works with 567 farmers from 7 villages located in the Bener Meriah district in Aceh Province, Indonesia.
• Meukat Komuditi Gayo was founded in 2013 in Aceh Tengah district. Its primary activities are in high-quality, fully washed coffee processing, local trading and exporting.
• Redelong Organic Cooperative (REO), located on the island of Sumatra, was created in 2014 in the community of Kenawat Redelong. The REO Cooperative has 703 members from four villages in the Bener Meriah District of the Gayo Highlands, with a total production area of 560 hectares.
• Orang Utan Coffee Lestari (the Orang Utan Coffee Project) works with 300 Gayo Arabica coffee farmers to manage their plantations in an ecological and sustainable way to protect the rainforest. This is the natural habitat of critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, and coffee sales support the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program.

Trade Facilitation Office (TFO) Canada is providing support to Indonesian SMEs to export to Canada and globally.

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About the TPSA Project

TPSA is funded by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada. The project is executed by The Conference Board of Canada and the primary implementation partner is the Directorate General for National Export Development, Ministry of Trade of Indonesia.

The TPSA project and the Indonesia Export Training Center presented Access to Digital Marketing by Export-Ready Women-Led SMEs on March 13-14.  This training course was designed to address a concern that women-led small and medium business owners lack access to export markets. The course helps participants have an increased understanding of gender issues in marketing, enhanced knowledge about digital marketing, and developing a strategy and plan for their businesses.

The TPSA Project held three gender and trade dialogue group meetings in December 2017 to present the preliminary findings from TPSA’s gender and trade study to a broad range of stakeholders. The gender and trade study identifies the particular exporting challenges faced by women-owned and led small and medium enterprises the coffee, apparel, and footwear sectors. Read more at https://nbfe4d.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017-12-05-Activity-Brief-1211.01f.pdf

Indonesia is now the world’s sixth-largest footwear exporter and accounts for 3.4 per cent of global exports. The industry has untapped potential. Aside from directly increasing production, Indonesia can benefit more from its footwear sector by extracting a higher share of the total value along the global value chain (GVC) for footwear. The industry faces a number of significant barriers that limit its production and export potential. This report identifies key barriers that limit the industry’s production and export potential, and make recommendations for industry stakeholders. Read more at https://nbfe4d.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018-02-26-Report-1211.03d.pdf

Indonesia’s apparel industry is already an important contributor to the country’s economy, but exports have had a difficult time in recent years and there are many challenges facing the industry. Indonesia’s population of 258 million creates a large domestic market, offering another opportunity for Indonesia to grow its apparel industry by continuing to add value at home. One way to achieve higher value-added in the exports of apparel would be to establish local brands internationally. Read more at https://nbfe4d.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2018-02-26-Report-1211.03e.pdf. 

In January 2018, the TPSA Project sent 20 coffee farmers from the Gayo region and South Sulawesi to the Indonesian Coffee and Cacao Research Centre Institute or Pusat Penelitian Kopi dan Kakao (PUSLITKOKA) in Jember, East Java.

The farmers represent TPSA-assisted small and medium enterprises/ cooperatives. Increasing farmers’ knowledge and skills in environmentally-friendly production, waste management, and coffee processing is critical to developing a sustainable coffee industry in Indonesia. Participants received in-class training on organic coffee cultivation techniques, waste management, pest and disease management, and post-harvest processing.