Publish What You Pay Indonesia's Blog (19)

Good governance in extractive industries (EI) and natural resources has played an important role in development, particularly for economic and social welfare. A lack of good governance can potentially lead to asymmetric information, high economic costs, and corruption. It also has critical impact on environmental damage, social conflict, and can even potentially fuel human right violations. This is particularly true in the case of EI, which mostly deals with un-renewable resources that are…

Recently we launched our report on the administration of coal mining permit in Indonesia, result of rigorous teamwork between Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia and KPK. The report depicts the chaotic state of coal mining permit, the efforts taken by the government to unravel the problems also a little improvement…

JAKARTA - Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is urged to utterly implement the policy on the restriction and reduction of coal production on 400 million tons by 2019. Such policies are the mandate of the National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJM) 2015-2019 and the General Planning of National Energy (known as RUEN).

The coordinator of National Mining Advocacy Network (JATAM), Merah Johansyah Ismail said that his side…

JAKARTA – Coalition of Publish What You Pay Indonesia appreciated the issuance of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Report for fiscal year of 2014 and roadmap of beneficial ownership as well as portal of Extractive Industries (EI) Openness in Indonesia by Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. These are part of the commitments of Government of Indonesia with the support and participation of multi stakeholder, both the industry and civil…

The global transparency wave has reached Indonesia. Initiatives such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) are bringing more transparency to Indonesia and the mandatory disclosures laws of the EU have led to more data on extractive activities in Indonesia becoming available.

But the oil, mining and gas industries are still among the most corrupt sectors and accessing relevant data on the amount of production, marketing, shipment and payment of taxes and other…

Jakarta-Publish What You Pay Indonesia supports Directorate General (DG) of Mineral and Coal, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to crack down mining companies which would not pay off the non-tax revenue arrears, either mining permits holder, Coal Contract of Work, and Contract of Work. MEMR is urged to be bold to impose special treatment, such as formulation of the black list of company, business permit revocation, and law enforcement.

National Coordinator of PWYP Indonesia,…

The deadlock of renegotiation between Government of Indonesia and PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) to reach an agreement regarding the adjustment toward Indonesia regulations (2009 Mining Law), particularly on the export permit of concentrate, the switch of Contract of Work (KK) into Special Mining Permit (IUPK), provision of tax (prevailing vs nail down), and divestment provision, will be likely settled through dispute settlement mechanism in the International…

Civil society coalition for energy and extractive industry governance reform, Publish What You Pay Indonesia, urged the government to select Pertamina’s President Director in transparent, credible, and independent manner. It’s to ensure the continuity of oil and gas governance reform in order to ensure energy security as well as encourage Pertamina to become a world-class oil and gas company.

Fabby Tumiwa, Director of Institute for Essential Service Reform said that it’s…

Recently, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resource of Indonesia issued Ministerial Regulation Number 37 Year 2016 concerning the Provision Deals of Participating Interest (PI) 10% on the Oil and Gas Block. Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia assesses that the regulation has big potential to reduce rent seeking in the PI management in the oil and gas industry by prioritizing Region Owned Enterprise (BUMD) which’s fully owned by the local government or other companies whose at least 99%…

As featured in the blog of PWYP, massive and irresponsible mining exploitation in Indonesia cost the country huge environmental destruction as well as people lives. To encourage the development of downstream industry and control the on-going exploration as well, the government has issued export ban on raw mineral yet allowed export on the concentrate up to 12 January 2017.

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Entitled “Beneficial Ownership Transparency, State Revenue, and EITI”, the policy brief captures how the absence of beneficial ownership transparency affect Indonesia state revenue in massive way. And the current initiative, EITI, aims to address the gap by promoting beneficial ownership in the extractive industries. 

Approximately IDR 1,387 trillion (at least $100 billion) financial benefit flew from oil, gas, mineral and coal sector that were enjoyed by thousand of corporate (Badan…

This blog was initially posted on the PWYP US website. It was written by Meliana Lumbantoruan, Research and Knowledge Manager in Publish What You Pay Indonesia.

The Importance of Project by Project Disclosure

Indonesia’s vast natural resources wealth includes oil, gas, bauxite, silver, and gold. Indonesia is the world’s second largest tin producer, and one of the top five producers of copper and nickel. The extractives sector plays an…

This blog was also posted on the Open Government Partnership website. It was written by Rizky Ananda Wulan Sapta Rini, Program Manager for Openness and Extractive Governance in Publish What You Pay Indonesia.

“I lived next to a mining operation for years. But I don’t know exactly the (authorized) location of that mining concession. Mining revenue? The local government never informed us about that.…

International Open Data Conference 2016 has just finished. And again, transparency of land use is being highlighted. On this light, we'd like to re-share our research study on spatial transparency of extractive industry in West Kalimantan Province, conducted by Swandiri Institute and Publish What You Pay Indonesia in 2014. Big findings include overlapping among the same commodity concession as well as between different concession. 

This report consists of five sections. First…

ASEAN energy consumption is projected to rise because of the significant growth of economy and population in the region. Coal use continuously increase as a replacement for oil and natural gas. ASEAN plays significant roles in coal consumption and production in Asia Pacific.

On this regard, Publish What You Pay Indonesia published "ASEAN Coal Trend: Challenges and Opportunities on facing ASEAN Economic Community". Using the value chain approach, coal producer countries in ASEAN will…

Mining governance in Indonesia continues to be an issue effecting the environment and the economy. These issues stem directly from a total lack of transparency and accountability in the industry. Systemic corruption is a further challenge in need of tackling.

A main issue in the industry is the careless way that mining permits are issued. In 2014, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry estimated that over half of all mining licenses issued since the enactment of the Mineral and…

Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia has published “Community Right Base Advocacy on Extractive Industries: Framing and Experience from Southeast Asia Countries", which highlights how community right should be captured along the value chain of extractive industry as framed in the Free Prior Informed and Consent (FPIC) framework, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) framework, and also in…