Preparation of Thematic DIP Mining and Environmental Sector in NTB Province: Innovation of Government Openness Policies
Since the implementation of regional autonomy in 2001, efforts to improve governance have been ongoing with all kinds of innovations that have been realized with a good governance…
Becoming an Activist, a Story of a Former Illegal Miner
Novi, not her real name, was an illegal miner. Now, she is surprisingly interested in participating in overseeing mining activities around where she lives, in Central Lombok…
Newsletter – Open Contracting – December 2019
Assessing Opportunities for Mining Contract and Licenses Transparency in West Nusa Tenggara from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia
Improving People’s Live Around Mining Areas: Open Up Access to Information & Participation
The government of West Nusa Tenggara Province issued a Local Government Regulation on Mining Governance in September 2019. In this newly-issued regulation, there is a specific…
Improvement of Community Capacity in Mining Monitoring in West Nusa Tenggara Province
Community involvement and active participation is very much needed in the supervision of mining activities, bearing in mind that mining activities can trigger environmental…
Accessing Mining License Information: Inspiring Others by One’s Action
Written by: Abdurrahman Wahid, Knowledge Manager SOMASI NTB “The mining industry has been destroying the environment,” explained Jamhur about West Nusa Tenggara Province. Publish…
The Role and Public Participation on Mining Regulation in West Nusa Tenggara Province
West Nusa Tenggara Province (NTB) in September 2019 has enacted Local Regulation Number 9 of 2019 on Management of Mineral and Coal Mining. It replaces Local Regulation Number 4…
Improving Transparency and Accountability of Mining Governance in NTB
Transparency and accountability are critical preconditions in mining governance. Those two principles are keys of meaningful public participation in monitoring the mining sector,…
Paris EITI Global Conference: What’s New in the EITI Standard
Ahead of summer of 2019, around 1000 participants attended the 8th EITI Global Conference which held in OECD Conference Center, last June 17th-19th in Paris. With the theme “Open…