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Pelatihan untuk pejabat Pemkab Aceh Tengah di Kochi & Tokyo

Bahasa Indonesia, Berita / Aktivitas

Kami mengadakan pelatihan jangka pendek untuk pejabat Pemkab Aceh Tengah di Jepang, 5-9 November 2019. Ini adalah bagian dari Proyek Kerjasama Akar-Rumput JICA untuk pengembangan sumber daya jeruk antara kota Ochi di prefektur Kochi dan kabupaten Aceh Tengah.

Mereka belajar kebijakan dukungan oleh pemerintah lokal untuk mengembangkan industrialisasi ke-6 (integrasi budidaya-pengolahan-pemasaran) oleh sektor swasta, kali ini. Dua trainee yang dikirim dari Aceh Tengah di kota Ochi mengajarkan cara memetik jeruk kepada peserta pejabat Pemkab. Ada juga liputan TV lokal Kochi.

Kami berharap pelatihan jangka pendek ini membuat kontribusi untuk mengembangkan industrialisasi ke-6, yaitu, integrasi budidaya-pengolahan-pemasaran sumber daya jeruk di Aceh Tengah.

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Training for Government Officials of Aceh Tengah in Kochi & Tokyo

Activities, English

We supported the short-term training for government officials of Aceh Tengah in Japan, 5-9 November 2019. This is a part of JICA Grass-root Cooperation Project on orange resource development between Ochi town in Kochi prefecture and Aceh Tengah district.

They learned support policies by local government to develop the 6th industrialization (integration of cultivation-processing-marketing) by private sector this time. Two trainees sent from Aceh Tengah in Ochi town taught how to pick orange to those government officials. Local TV shot the scene.

We hope this short-term training make some contribution to develop the integration of cultivation-processing-marketing of orange resource in Aceh Tengah.

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Business Trip to Aceh: 15-21 September 2019

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In 15-21 September 2019, we had a business trip to Aceh and Medan in the name of the JICA grass-roots Project for Sixth Industrialization (cultivation, processing and promotion) of Citrus Resources in Central Aceh District Utilizing Knowledge of Ochi Town. We mainly stay in Takengon, capital city of Central Aceh District.

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Visit Umaji Village

Activities, Connect, Learn and Action, English

Visit Umaji Village in Kochi Prefecture. Umaji is Uma (horse) plus ji (road). It means we must reach Umaji by horse. But it is old story. Now we can enjoy smooth car drive to Umaji even though the road is narrow and winding.

Umaji, whose population is 930 persons,  is now famous as success case of local revitalization by processing of yuzu, very good smelling citrus. JA Umaji has 5 factories to process many kinds of yuzu goods, as yuzu drink, yuzu ponzu source, yuzu jam, yuzu chili, yuzu pepper, yuzu liqueur, yuzu cosmetics, yuzu ‘aromatics, and so on. Yuzu seed becomes good material for cosmetics.

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Amazing, isn’t it? Only 930-populated tiny village in mountainous area has 5 factories. Most of products are sold through mail order or internet to all areas in Japan, with increasing the number of fans of Umaji. Umaji offers the status of special villager to those fans.

This has been promoted by JA Umaji. JA Umaji has its very unique and impressive business model to revive tiny mountainous village, through the integration of production of yuzu, processing, and marketing.

However, as other villages in Japan, Umaji also faces to depopulation and aging. How is the way to satisfy with increasing market demand for yuzu products under decreasing of labor? Mechanization is one of the answer with 5 factories. But, is it sustainable in the future? Is it overcapacity or not?

The challenge of Umaji will be severer.

 

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Business Trip to Kochi & Fukushima (8-13 Sep. 2016)

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In the name of “JICA Program on Data Collection Survey on Public-Private-Partnership for Activating Agricultural Promotion in Indonesia”, I will visit Kochi and Fukushima with local government officials from Indonesia in 8-13 September, 2016.

This JICA Program studies on the possibility to create partnership and cooperation in agriculture and/or livestock sector between local government in Indonesia and Japan, and between government and private sector. The key is how to realize win-win partnership between them.

So, even in the name of JICA, this is not pure assistance or aid program from Japan to Indonesia.

I will visit Kochi in 8-10 September and Fukushima in 11-13 September.

 

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