An Australian-funded IOM project to help local roof tile and brick
makers restart production following the devastating May 2006
earthquake in Central Java has been handed over to employee
cooperatives.

The 11-month Yogyakarta Livelihood programme, funded by the
Yogyakarta-Central Java Community Assistance Programme (YCAP), an
initiative under the Australian-Indonesian Partnership, was
launched in 2007.

Designed to create jobs and meet a surge in demand for roof
tiles and bricks created by the massive, post-quake reconstruction
effort, it provided support at a time when traditional tile and
brick makers were unable to restart production because their kilns
had been destroyed and they had no working capital.

The project trained earthquake survivors and set up three roof
tile and brick manufacturing facilities with a total production
capacity of 90,000 units a month. Each facility is now run by a
cooperative and employs 20 people, half of them women.

Trial production runs at the kilns began in April 2008 and
during the first three months the cooperatives sold over 100,000
tiles.

For further information please contact:

Jihan Labetubun

IOM Indonesia

Tel: +62 8111907028

Email:  "mailto:jlabetubun@iom.int">jlabetubun@iom.int 

or

Johan Grundberg

Tel: +62 811286140

Email: "mailto:jgrundberg@iom.int">jgrundberg@iom.int