Lucky Lee, President of Henkel Indonesia, said, “Moving to Bintaro marks a new phase of growth for Henkel in Indonesia, and reinforces our long-term commitment to create sustainable value for our employees, our customers, other stakeholders and the local communities.” Established in 1974, Henkel has been present in Indonesia for 43 years. Henkel Indonesia operates two adhesives plants in Tangerang and Pasuruan, East Java. The company serves a wide variety of industries, including automotive, consumer goods, furniture, food and beverage, packaging, and footwear. Mr. Lee said Henkel leads the industry with high-impact solutions in adhesives, sealants and functional coatings worldwide, adding that, “Combining our global capabilities with our strong technical team and manufacturing excellence in Indonesia, we aim to be even more innovative, faster and more agile. Additionally, we are committed to promoting sustainability even more strongly in all our business activities.” Its new location in Bintaro offers Henkel a strategic location in terms of being closer to its customers that are situated in Tangerang in the West, Jakarta in the North, and Bekasi and Karawang in the East where many industrial zones are based. Aside from getting closer to its customers, Henkel Indonesia’s new office fosters the concept of an agile organization with energized and empowered teams. By implementing an open office concept with modern facilities – including flexible seating arrangements to encourage greater communication across the organization, a variety of formal rooms and informal spaces to cater to different activities – the new office design provides an exciting opportunity to strengthen the company’s One Henkel spirit, and enhance collaboration, as well as promote an entrepreneurial culture. “With ‘People’ as one of our corporate values and our most important asset, our goal is to create a dynamic, inclusive and engaging workplace, where employees are inspired to reach their full potential and proud to be associated with,” Mr. Lee said. Henkel Indonesia’s new location: <b>PT Henkel Indonesien <br />PT Henkel Adhesive Technologies <br /></b>Nissi Bintaro Campus , 3rd Floor <br />Jl. Tegal Rotan Raya No.78 <br />Bintaro, Tangerang Selatan <br />Banten 15413, Indonesia <br />Phone: +6221 2758 6900 <br />Fax: +6221 7592 4625
While there were numerous technologies and innovations demonstrated at Festo’s booth, the star of the show was BionicOpter and AirJelly, two technologies that showcases Festo’s vision of the future. “This is essential for our long-term reputation as a competent partner with a high level of problem-solving skills,” emphasises Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Frontzek, Head of Corporate Communication and Future Concepts. “What we need to do is simplify the challenges involved in production sequences and guarantee intuitive control of machines and plants. The projects from Festo’s Bionic Learning Network provide visonary approaches on how to do this,” Mr. Frontzek added. After bird flight had been deciphered with the SmartBird in 2011, the developers took on their next-biggest challenge: modelling the dragonfly at a technical level. The BionicOpter is an ultralight flying object. Just like its model in nature, the BionicOpter can fly in all directions and execute the most complicated flight manoeuvres. The principles of ultra-lightweight construction are applied throughout the flying object. With a wingspan of 63cm and a body length of 44cm, the model dragonfly weighs just 175 grams. The wings consist of a carbon-fibre frame and a thin foil covering. The intelligent kinematics correct any vibrations during flight and ensure flight stability. Meanwhile, Air is the element of the AirJelly. Rather than swimming through water like the AquaJelly, it glides through the air with the aid of its central electric drive and an intelligent, adaptive mechanical system. The remote-controlled AirJelly is kept in the air by its helium-filled ballonet. The AirJelly’s only energy source is the two lithium-ion-polymer batteries, to which the central electric drive is attached. This transmits its power to a bevel gear and then to eight spur gears, which drive the eight tentacles of the jellyfish via their respective cranks. Using a peristaltic movement to drive a balloon was previously unknown in the history of aviation. The AirJelly is the first indoor flying object to use such a peristaltic propulsion system. “This is where we demonstrate that, by learning from nature, we will be ready to apply more and more energy efficient, automation, solution for the industry,“ said Hartono Indra, Managing Director of PT Festo in Indonesia. Aside from the BionicOpter and AirJelly, Festo also demonstrated various other products such as the pneumatic proportional media valve VZQ, The stainless-steel cylinder CRDSNU, the electric cylinder ESBF in Clean Look, and The Clean Design valve terminal MPA-C, all of which offers specific solutions for industries. “It’s good to be here,“ Mr. Indra concluded. “To get together with the customers and also to introduce our new products, concept, spirit, passion. Festo, as a German company, is known for the quality. But we want to highlight that we don’t just bring quality, we also bring innovation. In terms of the product design that will be energy efficient, more simple mechanics, not only on the technical side, but also the control aspect with industry 4.0. So we are ready. We will grow with the industry and, with the innovation that we bring, we are ready to support [the industry].“
Time for the German tourism promotion to become more visible in Indonesia. Since 2015 EKONID has been supporting the German National Tourism Board (GNTB) in analyzing the market potential and relevant stakeholders. As part of the ASEAN Roadshow 2017 the first GNTB delegation came to Jakarta within the time period 18-19 October 2017. Other cities that were visited as part of the roadshow were Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. The delegation comprised representatives from GNTB Germany and Singapore as well as companies and institutions representing the German Tourism industry: Activo Travel GmbH, Berlin Tourismus + Kongress GmbH, Düsseldorf Airport, Frankfurt Airport, KaiYuan Information & Business GmbH, Lufthansa and Maritim Hotels. In Jakarta EKONID organized a networking dinner and a Schengen-visa-workshop in cooperation with the German Embassy Jakarta. The networking dinner in the restaurant Plataran Menteng was attended by more than 30 representatives of the Indonesian outbound tourism industry. The evening was moderated by the Singapore-based GNTB representative. Since January 2017 GNTB has its own ASEAN representation in Singapore. For the next day EKONID organized a Schengen-visa-briefing in cooperation with the German Embassy. We would like to thank Mr. Gregor Fiedler, Head of Visa Section, for his time to brief the representatives of the Indonesian travel agencies and to be available for questions regarding issues the travel agents are faced with when it comes to the application for the Schengen visa. One major concern is the limited number of available visa interview slots. In this regards Mr. Fiedler convey very positive news. Starting mid of next year the German Embassy intends to involve a service agency in processing the visa applications. The additional support will enable the Embassy to process more visa applications, thus opening the doors for more Indonesian tourist in Germany.
With the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), as well as German partners from the Innovation Networks for Optical Technologies (OptecNet Deutschland e.V), German Healthcare Partnership (GHP), the German Association of Consulting Engineers (VBI), and Puchala International Markterschließung, EKONID will be hosting a hospital design and equipment business delegation on November 5-10, 2017. The six-day mission will take place in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Bali, within which two business forums will be organized separately in Jakarta on the 6th of November and in Surabaya on the 9th of November 2017. Apart from the business forums, the mission program will consist of B2B meetings, roundtable discussions with relevant local stakeholders and associations, and institution visits. It is expected that ten to twelve German companies, accompanied by the BMWi, will visit Indonesia. The delegation is expected to comprise of hospital management companies, equipment suppliers, consulting firms as well as architecture companies and institution. Currently, EKONID is preparing a market study on hospital design and equipment in Indonesia. The study is estimated to be final at the end of September 2017. It shall also be made publicly made available at the same time. For more information on this upcoming delegation event, please contact Mr. Stephan Blocks – Phone No.: +62 21 315 4685 or Email: <a href="http://stephan.blocks@ekonid.id.">stephan.blocks(at)ekonid.id.</a>
On September 29, 2017 at Hotel Pullman Jakarta Indonesia, EKONID presented its new brand “ICCQ - Information and Certification Center for Qualification” as well as the concept of the ICCQ platform for business trainings incl. the ICCQ Trainer Pool to training providers and Heads of HR Departments of EKONID member and non-member companies of different sectors. EKONID Managing Director Jan Rönnfeld welcomed the participants and outlined the intention and initiative of the Chamber to connect the companies’ demand for tailor-made trainings to offers of qualified training providers. Inviting companies and trainers to share their individual ideas on the ICCQ platform with EKONID, Ms. Ute Brockmann, Deputy Managing Director and Head of EKONID’s Training and Education Department, informed about the current preparation of an annual ICCQ Training Calender containing business-related training offers on soft skills and technical knowledge. EKONID intends to publish the calender on a new separate ICCQ website incl. a booking tool for registration for the trainings. Only training providers quality-approved by EKONID for membership in the ICCQ Trainer Pool will be entitled to promote their training offers on the ICCQ Training Calender. EKONID invited four experts to the event’s panel composed of Mrs. Ester Tjiungwanara, Head of HR at PT. Mercedes-Benz Indonesia, Mr. Ignasius Sebayang, Head of HR at Heidelberg Indonesia, Ms. Cynthia Wihardja, General Manager of ActionCOACH South Jakarta and Mr. Nicolas Llovet, Senior Trainer of KPI Consultancy. The experts shared their views and experiences amongst others on HR development principles, the Indonesian training market as well as challenges for companies in analyzing training needs, selecting the appropriate trainer and following up on the trainings’ outcomes. The audience actively participated in the lively discussion on solutions for the further qualification of company staff. The panelists and the other participants expressed their high appreciation for the initiative of EKONID to provide a platform of business trainings based on the concrete thematic demand of companies. At the end of the event, Mr. Llovet complimented the good balance in the number of training providers on the one hand and trade and manufacturing companies on the other hand EKONID gathered for the event. “It resulted in some very interesting conversation and a really interesting panel... I think everyone got something out of this discussion, both the trainers and the users,” he said. Meanwhile, Mrs. Tjiungwana expressed her hope of seeing ICCQ grow as a platform. “This is a very good platform. I’m hoping very much that it’ll expand even more because, as a user, it’s always good for me to have even more information on the various trainings that are available out there. The same goes for training providers so they can find even more companies who are looking for those trainings that they provide,” she said.