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Tegal District is located around 165km west of Semarang City, the Capital of Central Java Province. The District has a number of micro and small metal industries, amounting to over 2,500, producing components for automobiles, heavy equipment and ships, as well as agricultural instruments. As the metal industry is designated as a priority industry of the District, people say "Tegal is Japan in Indonesia".

This Project currently supports the metal industries for planning a series of actions to be taken in 2014~2016 for the purpose of production technology improvement and market development through coordination with the Local Working Group (LWG) involving the public and private sectors so that the metal industry could make a leap forward. A cooperative recently established with 27 members specializing in ship component production is identified as the target to support, aiming at quality improvement of ship components such as windows, doors, discharge pumps and clasps and realization of new business transaction with major national shipbuilding companies. To achieve the goal, the Project supports stakeholders (central/ local governments, private sector such as banks and R&D institutions) for strengthening their cooperation/ coordination to address issues/ challenges identified in the supply chain of metal industry (i.e., procurement of quality material, technology improvement of casting/ welding, enhancement of quality testing system).

In parallel with the aforementioned supporting activities, the Project has launched a special activity for introducing 3S (Seiri=classification, Seiton=arrangement, Seisou=cleaning) to the producers.

Ship Component Workshop

Introduction of 3S