FLYER: Best Women Entrepreneurs of Aceh Awards 2007, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia  

Map of ILO Activities in Aceh and Nias 

FLYER: Best Women Entrepreneurs of Aceh Awards 2006  

1. Factors Affecting Women Entrepreneurs in Establishing and Expanding their Businesses in NAD Province 
2. Survey of the Demand for Microfinance Services in Coastal Aceh, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
3. Training Manual: Manufacturing of Concrete Floor/Pavement Tiles and Concrete Hollow Blocks, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
4. Aceh Lessons Learned, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
5. Aceh and Nias Tsunami Response Programme: Progress Report January - August 2006, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
6. ILO Working Paper: Women, Gender and Work in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province 
7. Creating Jobs: Capacity Building for Local Resource-Based Road Works in Selected Districts in NAD and Nias  
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8. ILO Report: 1 year in Aceh and Nias (February 2005 - February 2006), click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
9. Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in Aceh: The Case for Sustainable Economic Reintegration - GUIDING PRINCIPLES, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
10. ILO Guide on Responses to Support the Recovery and Reconstruction Efforts in Crisis-Affected Areas in Indonesia, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
11. Report on Micro-finance Conference, 21-22 June 2005, Banda Aceh 
12. Towards Decent Employment in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) and Nias, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia  

Presentation of Best Women Entrepreneurs of Aceh Awards 2006

BANDA ACEH: The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Indonesian Employers’ Association (APINDO), joined by the BRR, and UNIFEM, celebrated the International Women’s Day with the themes to promote role models for women entrepreneurs and to secure gender mainstreaming in all process of reconstruction and rehabilitation initiatives in Aceh and Nias.  Over 100 business women, representatives of the donor community and UN agencies, and local government attended the International Women’s Day: Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Aceh and Nias—Best Women Entrepreneurs of Aceh, 2006 on Wednesday, 8 March, from 08.30 to 12.00, at Dinas Informasi dan Komunikasi (Infokom), Banda Aceh, the Province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam..... >> more
 

Important, the Role of Good Labour Relations in Rebuilding Aceh Jaya

CALANG (ILO News): Sound, harmonious industrial relations play an important role to better facilitate the rebuilding tsunami affected areas and to ensure the implementation of decent terms and conditions of working, says a set of guidelines produced by the Provincial Department of Manpower of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (Disnaker NAD) with technical assistance from the ILO...... >> more
 

Labour Task Force to Address Long-Term Economic Growth in Aceh

BANDA ACEH (ILO News): The Indonesia Government yesterday launched a new initiative designed to increase long-term economic and employment growth here by tackling strategic labour issues.....>> more
 

Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam labour office, ILO to hold jobs workshop

BANDA ACEH (ILO News): The Provincial Labour Office of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD), in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), will hold a Workshop on 15 December 2005 in Banda Aceh to discuss the newly drafted “Guidelines on Employment in the Reconstruction Sector” to help secure a healthy employment relations environment during the reconstruction process.... >> more
 

Supporting Reconstruction Process, Provincial Government and ILO hold Rural Infrastructure Clinic in Banda Aceh

BANDA ACEH (Joint Press Release): To support the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) Province, the Provincial Government of NAD in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) will hold a Rural Infrastructure Clinic, at Aula Dinas Prasarana Wilayah, Banda Aceh, from 10 – 12 September 2005. The Clinic is expected to be opened by the Acting Governor of NAD, Ir. H. Azwar Abubakar..... >> more
 

ILO and Education Office to Develop Remedial Programme for National Examinations Phase II

BANDA ACEH (ILO News): Thousands of junior and senior high school students in the Province of Provinsi Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) failed the national exams phase I conducted last June. It is reported that around 24,381 junior high school children had failed. Devastated school buildings, lack of educational facilities and of teaching personnel have been pointed as a cause of the bad results in the national exams in the Province..... >> more
 

Rebuilding Livelihoods in Aceh through Microfinance

BANDA ACEH (Joint Press Release): The natural disaster that struck Aceh on 26 December 2004 caused the loss of many lives, displaced families and destroyed jobs as well as source of the livelihood of over 600,000 people. If not addressed adequately, this loss of employment and income will result in many people having to face hunger and poverty..... >> more
 

Head of Aceh Utara District to Launch Employment Service in Lhok Seumawe

LHOK SEUMAWE (ILO):  The Head of Aceh Utara District, H.E. Tarmizi A. Karim, will officially open the Employment Service for the People of Aceh Utara District (ESPAU) on Wednesday, 4 May 2005, at Manpower Office in Lhok Seuwame. The ESPAU will begin soon..... >> more
 

Manpower Minister to Launch Employment Service in Banda Aceh

BANDA ACEH (Joint Press Release):  The Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, H.E. Fahmi Idris, will officially open the Employment Service for the People of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province (ESPNAD) on Monday, 21 March 2005, in Banda Aceh. Located at the Vocational Training Centre of Banda Aceh (BLK), the ESPNAD was jointly set up by the ILO and the Government of Indonesia and began operating on 7 February. The press conference with the Manpower Minister will be held at 14.00 at the BLK Banda Aceh..... >> more
 

New Programme Develops Skills of Acehnese Children and Prevents Child Exploitation

BANDA ACEH (Joint Press Release): Children between the ages of 15-17 and living in the camps for displaced persons in the Province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) will be the target of new training programmes being launched in Banda Aceh on Monday, March 14..... >> more
 

ILO and Disnaker Emergency Employment Service in Banda Aceh Registers and Places Jobs for Thousands

BANDA ACEH (Joint Press Release):  The Provincial Department of Manpower of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam in Banda Aceh (Disnaker NAD) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) today provided an update on progress made at the Employment Service for the People of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province (ESPNAD).  The ESPNAD commenced its operations on Monday, 7 February 2005, to facilitate access to jobs for those who have lost their livelihoods as a result of the earthquake and Tsunami disaster..... >> more
 

ILO and Disnaker Establish Emergency Employment Service in Banda Aceh

BANDA ACEH (Joint Press Release): The Provincial Department of Manpower in Banda Aceh (Disnaker Banda Aceh) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) today announced the start-up of the Employment Service for the People of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province (ESPNAD). The ESPNAD will commence its operations starting Monday, 7 February 2005, to facilitate access to jobs for those who have lost their livelihoods as a result of the earthquake and Tsunami disaster...... >> more
 

Indonesian death toll hits 173,981: Ministry of Health

JAKARTA (AFP): The Indonesian death toll from last month's earthquake and tsunami disaster has risen more than 7,000 to 173,981, the ministry of health said on Sunday..... >> more
 

ILO Calls for Integrated Employment Strategy for Tsunami Reconstruction
Says Estimated 1 Million People Lost Livelihood

GENEVA (ILO News): The International Labour Office (ILO) today urged that “employment-intensive” job creation strategies be integrated into the humanitarian and reconstruction response to the earthquake and Tsunami disaster in Asia that destroyed the livelihoods of an estimated 1 million persons in Indonesia and Sri Lanka alone..... >> more
 

National Tripartite Summit Recommendation

JAKARTA (Joint Release): That today, Wednesday, dated 19 January 2005, has been conducted National Tripartite Summit, attended by elements involved in industrial relations whose are trade unions leaders, employer organizations leaders (APINDO/KADIN), and government representatives as well as international labor institutions, companies receiving Bipartite Awards of 2005 and a number of observers..... >> more
 

Special Coordinator Briefs Press on Return from Aceh:
Update on the Relief Effort in Indonesia

JAKARTA (Joint Press Release): The hard-core emergency phase of disaster relief in Indonesia was well under way and the machinery needed to assist people was accelerating, according to Margareta Wahlström, United Nations Special Coordinator for Tsunami Relief Efforts, who addressed correspondents at the Media Center this morning..... >> more
 

Indonesia Launching a Joint Disaster Management Centre with the United Nations

Jakarta, 10 January 2005 - The Indonesian Government established today a joint Disaster Management Centre (DMC) with the United Nations at the Office of the Vice-President, which is to set priorities for the management and coordination of international relief efforts..... >> more
 

Statement of ILO Director General Statement on the response to the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean

GENEVA (ILO News): The International Labour Office (ILO) today released the following statement by Director-General Juan Somavia regarding the role of the ILO in the response to the earthquake and tidal wave in the Indian Ocean Area..... >> more
 

2. Special Edition on Tsunami: 

• January 2005, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
• April 2005, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia
• July 2005, click here for English or Bahasa Indonesia 

5. ILO Jakarta Staff Activities:

• Jakarta, 29 December 2004
• Banda Aceh, 5-9 April 2005 

6. Creating Jobs: Capacity Building for Local Resource-based Road Works in Selected Districts in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
    and Nias, click here