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This report discusses whether tourism is the ultimate option for escaping from mining economic in resource-rich countries like Indonesia. Drawing on the case of Belitung District, this report aims to see whether tourism might or might not provide a sustainable, alternative option of development for Belitung in the context of the declining mining industry and the economic slowdown. Understanding globalization and sustainable development are significant to support answering such questions, as sustainability can sometimes be ambiguous and difficult to define. The report attempts to acknowledge the numerous understanding of sustainability by putting forward some undisputable aspects of it, such as long environment protection and long-term economic benefit. While the potential benefit from FDIs is increasingly important in the infrastructural development for the tourism sector in Belitung, this report suggests that such massive investment should create justified benefits to the locals and contribute to poverty reduction.

This report aims to understand whether Indonesia’s biofuel programme manifests a viable trajectory to a ‘sound’ sustainability transition. While the research question encourages a somewhat yes-or-no answer, this piece of study will argue why such a clear-cut answer is difficult due to the absence of an unanimous understanding of sustainability. However, this report concludes that ill practices of biodiesel production are overshadowing the benefits of consuming palm oil-based biofuel, challenging the soundness of the proposed sustainability transition. By placing Indonesia’s biofuel mandate in the context of a sustainability transition, the report is of significant contribution since Indonesia, as the world’s leading producer of palm oil, is experiencing increasing demand from its growing transport sector, at a time in which its domestic production of petroleum declines. Slashing oil imports is largely viewed as one of the key rationales, legitimizing Indonesia’s biofuel programme, which currently enforces commercial distribution of 20 per cent blended biodiesel (B20). However, in the world’s growing necessity of secure, reliant and sustainable access to energy for the prosperity of humanity, the appropriateness of palm oil-based biodiesel as the solution to the world’s energy need has raised several concerns of its environmental impact.

The main framework of this study is enhancing the local economy based on the non-mining sectors. This study highlights policies in four sectors: tourism, palm oil, pepper plantation, and fisheries, which are potential to overcome tin mining dependency. In addition, this study considers the implications since those sectors have tendency to involve large-scale capital with national and international networks. The policy brief is available in Bahasa

The resource governance policy of oil old-well area in Wonocolo, Bojonegoro District has been limited to the formal aspects of the economic institution that is so-called good mining governance. Meanwhile, the socio-cultural aspects of the community living from traditional oil mining in generations have relatively not been accommodated. This policy brief aims to provide input for the Bojonegoro District Government in managing traditional oil mining in Wonocolo.

A hand book of general plans of the course, including session plan, program itinerary, list of resource persons, and list of participants.

The module provides an overview of Asia Pacific Knowledge Hub for Extractive Industries Training Course. The module explaines how the course of Batch 4 on theme "Advancing Accountable Resource Governance in Asia Pacific" is organized, along with a brief introduction on the objectives of the each session. The course focuses on three thematic components: (i) Deciding to Extract and Getting a Good Deal, (ii) Managing Revenue, (iii) Strategies and Practices for Reform.

Booklet of general plans training, including course content, program itinerary, session plan, list of resource persons, and list of participants.

Despite the many ways of "benefit sharing" that local residents can benefit from the presence of extractive activities, Indonesia's natural resource revenue sharing system creates incentives for wasteful spending in resource-rich regencies. This harms Indonesia's economic growth and development. This policy brief has recommended special rules to allow natural resource-dependent regencies to save a portion of their oil, gas, or mineral revenue windfalls for future generations and smooth volatile public spending. This saving can be placed in sovereign wealth funds. 

Our literature review shows that local knowledge is matters to translate literate knowledge general always having a gap with a real world situation. However, local knowledge is tacit and having certains obstacles to compete in contestation knowledge sphere, thereby the roles of intermediary institutions are needed to facilitate local communities having evidence based on their knowledge to negotiate with policy makers and mining corporations. The document is available in Bahasa.

We promote local knowledge to contribute more in policy reform for better extractive industries in resource rich regions. We met a number of prominent people in those regions to have productive discussion seeking how the evidences of local knowledge to matters. We present some pieces of quotations from our discussion. The document is available in Bahasa.