Indonesian Humanitarian and Social Aid Network (IHSAN)

IHSAN provide the sandal handicrafters with Rp25,000,000 injection in an effort to boost their productivity and marketability of their product. 

Located in Mangkubumi, Tasikmalaya, West Java, this home industry employs 8 skilful workers with a combined capacity to make 160 sandals per day. It’s estimated that this home industry can make a net profit of around Rp400,000.oo per day depending on market demand. But clearly it can pay its employees Rp60,000.oo each per day.

Based on terms of agreement between IHSAN and this company –called Twinset—the latter will give back 30% of its net profit to IHSAN. If this is sustainable, then in 18 months time we can help others who need starting capital or extra investment.

Dear Donors & Supporters... 

After the work of drying flooded homes in Kali Code burst, 29th November, our team of volunteers then continue their schedule to deliver packages of staple foods to 80 households that need them urgently. We do our best to prirotize those who don’t have any thing when they returned home from temporary shelters following the eruptions of Mount Merapi, starting October 26th 2010. 

Our team has been roaming the villages to search for unregistered refugees (the displaced) who were most likely missed in the distribution of official assistence from local authorities. So, the team recorded their locations and carefully determined the rights persons to receive IHSAN’s packages of staple foods (sembako). That’s why the distribution of the packages has to be done gradually, and delivered to small numbers of refugees in some differrent and sub-district often apart far away from each other. 

Dear respected donors...

As part of our small business financial assistance scheme, we have allocated Rp59 millions (equal to £4,300 in today’s rate) to help three different home industries increase their productivity and new jobs creation. They are: (1)cassava/banana crisp production with an investment of Rp19,500,000; (2)sandal production with an investment of Rp25,000,000; and (3)T-shirt production with an investment of Rp12,000,000. Total investment in production lines at the three businesses is Rp56,500,000, plus Rp3,000,000 to cover basic cost of 12 months supervising by our local volunteer. All three small businesses are in Tasikmalaya, West Java Province.

According to the agreement signed betwenn IHSAN and the beneficieries, 30% of their net profit will be allocated as a “repayment” that, in turn, will be used to help others in need.

Praise be to Allah, Alhamdulillah, IHSAN’s emergency aid has been able to reach Sikakap –the main town in North Pagai Island (Pulau Pagai Utara)—about 200 kilometers from Padang, the capital of West Sumatra Province. Our men reached Sikakap on Friday, Oct 30.

Like what was happened to most of the volunteers trying to distribute emergency need to the tsunami survivors scattered in remote and ‘hard to reach’ areas in several different islands within the Mentawai Islands, our two experienced men have had to end their repeated failed attempts to get around. High seas, huge waves and storms condition was ‘perfected’ by lack of land route that has made everything ‘mission impossible’.