29 November 2018
Marginalization of Residents from Livelihoods Due to Coal Mining in Buana Jaya and Mulawarman Villages
Indonesia is one of the world's countries with diverse natural, social and cultural wealth. All regions in Indonesia have their diversity and natural wealth. One of them is East…
29 November 2018
Mine for Who?
Mining activities in East Kalimantan did not have a significant economic impact on the local community. Even though throughout 2018, there were 3,025 IUP (Coal Mining Business…
20 September 2016
Moratorium and Its Chance to Improve Mining Governance
Written by: Askhalani* Aceh is one of rich natural resources area particularly in mineral and coal commodities. This mining and coal spread almost in all area of Province of…
27 July 2016
A Global Transparency Wave: The SEC Rule and Indonesia
Last month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) passed a rule that will require resource extraction issuers to disclose the payments that they make to governments for…
11 April 2016
A Story from Cerro De Pasco: Towards a Rights and Environmental Recovery Scheme in the EITI Standard
By: Hermawansyah, Swandiri Institute As a policy dialogue forum, EITI involves 3 parties namely the State, the Business Community & Civil Society. Can EITI encourage…
11 September 2015
Mitigation of the Malaysian Crisis Impact
* This paper is the personal view of the author Malaysia is in turmoil, Action Clean 4.0 involving various components of Malaysian civil society staged a massive demonstration in…