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On 30 November 2015, a dissemination seminar was held in the Ministry of Industry, Jakarta jointly by the Directorate General for Small and Medium Industry (DG-SMI) in order to share the experience and achievements of the successful case of local industry facilitation in the ship-parts industry of Tegal Regency with regional governments which have similar metal-working industries. The seminar was supported by the Directorate General for Metal, Machinery, Transportation Equipment and Electronics Industry (DG-ILMATE), Indonesian Ship-classification Bureau (BKI) and Association of Ship-parts Industries (AIKKI), so that an memorandum of understanding (MoU) which was entered among them last September in view of accelerating component certification by local industries, was also introduced to the participating regional governments.

The seminar was opened by the Director of SMI Region II, followed by presentations on facilitation experience and achievements jointly by the Expert Team and the Local Working Group (LWG) and on the strategy for shipbuilding industry development with focus on the acceleration program for component certification by DG-ILMATE. A subsequent discussion session observed some regional governments' interest in replicating facilitation experienced in Tegal and revealed the necessity of guidance on the BKI certification process to the intended regional governments (this was responded promptly at the seminar with a decision to organize training on the BKI certification process). AIKKI also committed itself to being a consultation partner for regional governments which would intend to prompt their SMIs (metal-working) to aim for BKI certification.

In the seminar, DG-SMI also provided a valuable input and introduced its ongoing revitalization program of technical service units (UPT), assuming that UPT in regions shall play as an important arm of technical service (such as testing) and consultation for the metal-working industry in their efforts towards component certification.

The seminar was then ended with closing remarks by DG-ILMATE, followed by a question and answer time with the participating regional governments. The Expert Team hopes that some regional governments will soon aim for the acceleration program for component certification, following such a support model demonstrated in Tegal Regency.

Group photo of the seminar participants