The eco­no­mic deve­lo­p­ment co-ope­ra­ti­on pro­gram bet­ween Switz­er­land and Indo­ne­sia is part of Switzerland’s deve­lo­p­ment coope­ra­ti­on and is run­ning sin­ce 2010. I ser­ved as head of the coope­ra­ti­on office in our Jakar­ta Embas­sy from 2010–2014 to set up ope­ra­ti­ons and build the pro­gram from very few acti­vi­ties into an annu­al pro­gram of rough­ly 20 mil­li­on CHF. The pro­gram is now in its fifth four year pro­gram­me cycle (2025−2028).

In the chal­len­ging insti­tu­tio­nal and phy­si­cal envi­ron­ment of the Indo­ne­si­an capi­tal, the mul­ti­ple tasks of pro­gram­me iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on, coor­di­na­ti­on, manage­ment and net­wor­king nee­ded to be tack­led in a spi­rit of prio­ri­tizati­on, effi­ci­en­cy, and trust-buil­ding with poten­ti­al part­ners.