PIKA Industrial Woodworking School

PIKA Industrial Woodworking School
Pendidikan Industri Kayu
Location
Industrial Woodworking School
Location in Semarang
Imam Bonjol, Semarang 50139, Indonesia
Coordinates 6°58′23.11″S 110°25′0.55″E / 6.9730861°S 110.4168194°E / -6.9730861; 110.4168194
Information
Type Jesuit, Catholic
Denomination All faiths
Established 1953 (1953)
Gender Coeducational
Website PIKA

PIKA Industrial Woodworking School (Pendidikan Industri Kayu) in Semarang, Indonesia, is a Jesuit-run vocational school at the secondary level. Students at PIKA defray their tuition expenses by a program which integrates education with production of industrial, household, and office furniture. About 75 apprentices graduate each year with a diploma as carpenters, furniture draughtsmen, and furniture designers.[1]

History

On 25 March 1953, Br. Joseph Haeken, S.J., opened a sawmill and workshop in Kaju Gardens, Kebun Kaju, Indonesia. It produced and repaired wood furniture for churches, monasteries, and schools, employing 23 people. On 30 May 1963 Br. Paul Wiederkehr, S.J., from Switzerland, a woodworking expert, came to Fraser Kaju to set up a two-year technical school in woodworking. It was officially established as the Canisius Foundation on 10 November 1968 and called School of Mechanical Gardens Kaju (STKK). Then on 30 July 1971 the name changed from STKK to PIKA (Wood Top Education Industry). PIKA consisted of two phases with the second a production unit, and offered four years of training.

In 1973 another two-year program was initiated, Level II, which after 1985 operated only every second year to assure better quality students. Level I trained machine operators while Level II added production managers.

In 1991 the "Center for Training and Development for the Timber Industry" (PPPIK) opened at PIKA, offering a seminar program for employees, craftsmen, and vocational teachers. In 1992 the "Institutions of Interior Design" (LPDI) opened with a two-year study period, accepting each year 20 vocational school graduates gifted at drawing, as a bridge between architects and workers in understanding drawings and wood construction.

On 5 June 2000 Br. Paul Wiederkehr, S.J., handed the direction over to Joko Tarkito, S.J, with deputy director Warno Tribowo, S.J. The school has achieved a wide reputation for woodworking design[2] and ranks among the best in Indonesia.[3]

UNESCO-UNEVOC report

PIKA offers a four-year course for about 120 apprentices and a two-year course for 30 foreman trainees. Also about six teachers in training are enrolled in a year-long course, and employees from industry are taught modern technologies. Diploma students spend their fourth year making furniture to help subsidize their education.

The PIKA curriculum includes both general and vocational subjects. Since about one quarter of the students come from socially disadvantaged families, the school has a number of associations that bring together students, parents, and teachers for discussion of social issues.

PIKA offers courses in woodworking, textile processing, and typing at Wikrama Putra orphanage in Ngalien, and offers services to the needy free of charge, as at the Java Save the Children (SOS) children's village. The Ministry of Education has had PIKA devise curricula for Indonesia's lower secondary technical schools. PIKA has published 16 textbooks for on wood technology, drafting, and furniture design.

PIKA has enjoyed wide aid from abroad. Besides the Society of Jesus, the chief foreign aid groups supporting PIKA's work have been from the Netherlands and Switzerland, which also offer continuing education for PIKA's teachers. Further aid for construction and expansion came from Misereor and from the Zürich-based Francis Xavier Foundation, along with aid from Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Ltd., Our Company. "INCHfurniture · Production · Collaboration". www.inchfurniture.ch. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  2. ↑ Barbara Glasner & Stephan Ott. Wonder Wood: A Favorite Material for Design, Architecture and Art. 2013. p. 280. ISBN 9783034610896
  3. ↑ "The Many Lessons of Wood in Design | Jakarta Globe". Jakarta Globe. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  4. ↑ Madhu Singh. School Enterprises: Combining Vocational Learning with Production, Berlin: UNEVOC-UNESCO, 1998, pp. 21-23. Retrieved 15 December 2016.

Coordinates: 6°58′23.11″S 110°25′0.55″E / 6.9730861°S 110.4168194°E / -6.9730861; 110.4168194

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