Edition 130: Oct-Dec 2017

Mining

KATHRYN ROBINSON AND MARIBETH ERB

Published: 19 October 2017

Mining law changes in decentralising Indonesia raises new challenges and opportunities for local communities

RYAN EDWARDS

Published: 20 April 2018

Manfaat sumber daya alam yang terkonsentrasi sulit untuk didistribusikan

President Joko Widodo speaks at a podium, with a red banner as a backdrop.

EVE WARBURTON

Published: 19 October 2017

The Jokowi government’s policy shift contributes to pervasive regulatory ambiguity in Indonesia’s mining sector

An elderly woman stands in a grass field in a rural dwelling, looking to the side.

KATHRYN ROBINSON

Published: 19 October 2017

The 2009 mining law and the community benefit in Sulawesi

A worker at a mining site points to the low-hanging clouds.

ARIANTO SANGADJI

Published: 19 October 2017

Foreign investment in large-scale mining has encountered serious obstacles

A child worker pushes a wheelbarrow of harvest along in an oil palm plantation.

RYAN EDWARDS

Published: 19 October 2017

The benefits of more concentrated natural resources are less likely to be spread

A car drives along a concrete road among tall crop fields.

SULVIYANI SUARDI

Published: 19 October 2017

Mining dominates East Luwu GDP but development of agriculture underpins equitable development

A mining base, with a pipe running across the foreground and some wooden structures.

KUNTALA LAHIRI-DUTT

Published: 19 October 2017

Irrespective of location or commodity, peasants now compete with multinational mining companies on the mineral-rich tracts of Indonesia

A photo of the front of a Toyota dealership.

ANDREW MCWILLIAM

Published: 19 October 2017

Benefits ripple outwards but local government struggles to regulate the process

A car zooms by on a road in a barren landscape.

SEMIARTO A PURWANTO

Published: 19 October 2017

After reformasi, Kereng Pangi, Kalimantan became the site of a gold rush

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