The European Business Chamber of Commerce (EuroCham) is a business organization in Indonesia, which promotes European business interests and represents European member companies. EuroCham provides members with excellent opportunities to network and share business experiences. 13 Sectoral Working Groups are the backbone and the main communication tool of the chamber. Initiated by Mike Broomell, Managing Director of Colliers International in Indonesia and Jochen Sautter, President Director of the German Centre Indonesia, in December 2008 a Property Working Group was formally established, headed by Mr. Sautter since then. Its objective being to provide EuroCham members a platform for gaining inside information about the Jakarta property markets and a forum for exchanging practical experiences of property owners and lease holders and to address special points of interest towards third parties, especially the Indonesian government.
On 16th November seven students from the German International School (DIS) visited the German Centre Indonesia with their teacher Ms. Meinhardt. Their visit was part of a project week for 10th grade students who follow the trilingual “Programm Integrasi”, aimed specifically at Indonesian pupils. After Indonesian Primary School they pursue their secondary School education at the DIS, with the goal of graduating with the German “Abitur”, which qualifies them to enroll in German (and many other international) universities.
The Swiss German University (SGU), the second biggest tenant of the German Centre, currently occupying 6100 sqm will move out of the German Centre to welcome their students to their own campus in the Edu Town of BSD City next semester.
One of the newest tenants in the German Centre Indonesia is the well known German company TRUMPF. The TRUMPF Group ranks among the leading manufacturing companies worldwide with more than 8,000 employees and is organized in three divisions: Machine Tools and Power Tools, Laser Technology and Electronics, as well as Medical Technology. TRUMPF production sites are located in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, China, UK, Poland, Japan, Mexico and the USA.
Unknown to many, within the Ragunan Zoo in South Jakarta, there is a private piece of land with a little house where Ulrike Freifrau von Mengden lives. In 1968 the German became the first curator of the zoo and was granted the right to live there for life.
The delicate woman, better known as Ibu Ulla, came to Indonesia almost 60 years ago and dedicated her life to saving “Indonesia’s national treasures”. Her home became a sanctuary to numerous wild born, captive orangutans.
On the 12th of March2009 the Ministry of Economy of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) published a press release on the visit of the Minister of Economic Affairs of Baden-Württemberg, Ernst Pfister, to Indonesia and Brunei. The Minister is confident with the journey and happy that German Centre Indonesia developed so well: “Ich freue mich über die außerordentlich positive Entwicklung des German Centre in Indonesien“.
The European Business Chamber of Commerce (EuroCham) is a business organization in Indonesia, which promotes European business interests and represents European member companies. EuroCham provides members with excellent opportunities to network and share business experiences. 13 Sectoral Working Groups are the backbone and the main communication tool of the chamber. Initiated by Mike Broomell, Managing Director of Colliers International in Indonesia and Jochen Sautter, President Director of the German Centre Indonesia, in December 2008 a Property Working Group was formally established, headed by Mr. Sautter since then. Its objective being to provide EuroCham members a platform for gaining inside information about the Jakarta property markets and a forum for exchanging practical experiences of property owners and lease holders and to address special points of interest towards third parties, especially the Indonesian government.
