Semarang batik towards a premium, green industry

In Semarang (Indonesia), the Resilient Cities Network (R-Cities) is running the Catalyzing City Resilience Solutions (CCRS) program with support from the Citi Foundation to help the local economy recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. This recovery will catalyze urban resilience by empowering and strengthening a selection of critical small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop locally relevant solutions. Together with the local government in Semarang, R-Cities identified the opportunity to use the CCRS program to support the traditional textile community (the Batik community), one of the leading sectors in the city, in innovative ways. By co-creating interventions or solutions with the local government in Semarang and local SMEs as the main program beneficiaries, the program will emphasize the importance of the economic, environmental and social aspects of the Batik industry’s business processes.

To ensure that all program activities respond to the city’s needs and are grounded in the realities that the critical SMEs are facing, the CCRS program starts by assessing the challenges that the Batik industry is facing to understand the role, relationship and impact of the industry for the community. This Semarang SME “resilience profile” summarizes the results of the assessment process carried out by the local implementation partners: the Initiative for Regional Development and Environmental Management (IRDEM) and the Center for Urban and Regional Resilience Research (CURE) at Universitas Diponegoro, in close coordination with the local government in Semarang.

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https://resilientcitiesnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Semarang_SME_Profile.pdf