Event Reports

EuroCham Indonesia's Cosmetic Working Group convened its first offline meeting at EuroCham's office on July 25th. The meeting was led by Uti Daniawati M. (Head of the Cosmetic Working Group and Regulatory Personal Care SEA Indonesia Lead at Unilever) and Riva Dwitya Akhmad (Deputy Head of the Cosmetic Working Group and Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Director at L'Oréal). The group had a fruitful discussion on recent regulation updates as well as advocacy priorities for this year.

EuroCham was pleased to collaborate with the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum dan Perumahan Rakyat/PUPR), Water.org, and Indonesia Water Coalition, which held a workshop on “Collaboration to Enhance Drinking Water and Sanitation Facilities in Indonesia”, at JS Luwansa Hotel & Convention Center on 24 July.

The workshop aims to share the best practices and initiatives from the private sector as well as exposing the achievement of access and facilities for drinking water and sanitation in Indonesia.

The event was commenced with opening remarks by Riono Suprapto as Secretary of Directorate General of Housing from the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing, and was followed by speakers: Dades Prinandes, ST.MSI (Head Technical Planning Sub-Directorate, Directorate of Drinking Water, and Directorate General of Housing Ministry of PUPR), Dino V. Prayoga (Associate Director of Development from Konservasi Alam Nusantara), Edison Bako (Executive Director of EuroCham), and Rachmad Hidayat (water.org).

The workshop provided insightful discussion with the attendees on their programs and commitments towards SDG 6 about Clean Water and Sanitation, which is vital to preventing the spread of disease and to the health of families in our community.

We would like to thank all the participants that attended the workshop! We look forward to further support and collaboration to promote access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in our community!