Regional Centres — Indonesia, The Philippines & Papua New Guinea

Indonesia & The Philippines

Papua New Guinea

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Indonesia & The Philippines

Based on communications with industry, government and civil society organisations in The Philippines and Indonesia, a visit to these two countries was arranged in September 2000. The purpose was to broaden the network of project contacts and to address the feasibility of conducting an MMSD regional process in South-east Asia.

During meetings in Manila and Jakarta, it was agreed to convene a workshop to get feedback on ways to conduct the MMSD process. The workshop was hosted by Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) in Manila in December 2000, and attended by delegates from Indonesia and The Philippines.

It was decided that the best organisational framework was a national, not a regional one. Workshop delegates agreed that Economin, an Indonesian consultancy, working with others, would manage the baseline study in Indonesia and that ESSC would undertake the work in the Philippines. In turn, MMSD requested that a group of experts from the Department of Energy and Natural Resources provide a background paper on the current state of the industry in the Philippines. A second study was commissioned on human rights issues in Indonesia associated with the sector.

Papua New Guinea (PNG)

PNG was another country that could not be assigned to a regional process. Two expert studies were commissioned in PNG - one a background paper on issues, current status, best practice, and ways forward, and the other focused on mine closure issues, as several mines in PNG were near the end of their lives.

MMSD Working Papers related to these countries:

Aspinall, Clive
Small-scale Mining in Indonesia

Ballard, Chris
Human Rights and the Mining Sector in Indonesia: A Baseline Study

Report
(PDF 473KB)

Banks, Glenn
Papua News Guinea Baseline Study

Report
(PDF 818KB)

Bugnosen, Edmund
Country Case Study on Artisanal and Small-scale Mining: Philippines

Cabalda, M.V; Banaag, M.A.;Tidalgo P.N.T. & Garces R.B.
The Philippine Minerals Industry: A Baseline Study

Report
(PDF 1.32MB)

Christman, Patrice and Stolojan, Nicolas
Management and Distribution of Mineral Revenue in Papua New Guinea

Report
(PDF 299KB)

Jackson, Richard
Capacity Building in Papua New Guinea for Community Maintenance During and After Mine Closure

Report
(PDF 442KB)

Susapu, Blasius and Crispin, Geoff
Country Study Report on Small-scale Mining in Papua New Guinea

Wiriosudarmo, Rachman
Baseline Study and Gap Analysis on Mining in Indonesia

Report
(PDF 564KB)

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