Transparency and Accountability of Revenue and Spending in Extractive

Resources Sector

OPEN DATA + EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY

Indonesia, a nation used to limiting the free flow of has now reached the

era of openness. The Public Information Disclosure Law was regulated

in 2008 and since then, Indonesian citizens are guaranteed access to

public information, including information

that used to be locked away. Furthermore,

Indonesia has adopted a global initiative to

improve transparency and accountability

within extractive industries (oil, gas, and

mining) - that by nature is used to closed and

full with secrecy-, the Extractive Industries

Transparency Initiative (EITI). Recently, the

EITI has increased its standard which require

implementing country to provide accessible,

usable, and machine readable data of the

report. Also, given participation of Indonesia

in Open Government Partnership (OGP), there

are progressing moves from various sectors

and level of government and many stakeholder

to continually promote, provide and support

Transforming Extractive Industry through Open Data

implementation of open data: in public

service delivery, economic and trade, politic

and democracy, as well as extractive sector.

However, open data is not useful on its

own. Information shared by the government

or other sources still needs to be processed,

analyzed and effectively communicated

to the public. Government, civil society

organizations, practitioners and technician

(i.e. apps developer, cartographers,

multimedia design, etc.) could play vary key

roles to improve efficacy of open data as a

valuable asset in improving public service

delivery and promoting good governance.

Thus, we can imagine time when all data are

published in open format, and civil society

effectivelly participate in development.

Finally, open data should not be the end. It open up greater

opportunities to transforming our extractive industry, and civil society

and government need to use it wisely. The wave of open data movement

has started, and its impact are continually growing. Lets ride the wave!

Open Data for Effective Advocacy: Building Capacity of Civil Society

We believe that quality of data can make difference in advocacy. It can lead advocacy into a more effective and well-targeted effort to answer various problems in development. But data, without adequate user

capacity does not complete. Collaborating with School of Data, coalition of PWYP Indonesia conducted series of capacity building to optimally use Open Data in advocacy. Civil society organizations (CSOs), join in with local leaders, community leaders, and indigenous community trained to efficiently work with data (i.e. open data 101, finding data, working with data, communicating data, etc.), and significance of the open data format. At least 36 organizations have benefitted from this capacity building both in national and local level. The training was adjusted not just for participant who has access to internet and computer based technology, but also to community who has limited access to such technology. This activity has improved the way data is utilized, enabled CSOs to work efficiently with data, and importantly in communicating data. Now, most of advocacy’s publication come in informative and user friendly format (i.e. infographics, etc.), which have high acceptance from stakeholders.

Drone for Advocacy: Promoting Spatial

Transparency

In the extractive sector, spatiality (space and area) is important component. It relates to size of industry, financial obligation and revenues,

environmental impact, and also social aspect to impacted community. In collaboration with Swandiri Institute, PWYP Indonesia promotes spatial transparency by introducing use of drone technology. We equip indigenous community of Dayak People in West Kalimantan in using drone to map their areas and traditional rights, monitor operation and compliance of extractive industry in their neighborhood. Thus, indigenous community can ensure whether an industry(s) properly operated in the permitted area, implement good mining practices, comply with environmental standard, as well as file appropriate report of production or exploitation.

ACTIVITY

From Open Data to User-Friendly Data: Developing Portal

Indonesia has fulfilled obligation to produce and publish revenues

from its extractive sector through EITI report. However, complexity

and amount of data on the report make it difficult to be understood

and analyzed. Thus, preventing meaningful use and participation by

community to advocate the report’s findings. PWYP Indonesia facilitate

development of user friendly formats and

media of EITI report and other extractive

related data. The EITI report consist of

sets data of company payments, revenue

share to local government, production

data, and other information related to the

industry’ trend and governance. These

EITI data are also combined and analyzed

with data on government spending,

poverty data, spatial data, etc. These sets

of data are shared and visualized through

web portal, infographics, apps, etc. Public

can access, obtain, use, view, analyze all

these extractive related data through and

from the web portal and mobile apps.

Community Reporting: Benefiting from Open Data

We believe that Open Data in extractive sector will be more

valuable when community can benefit from it. Especially

community who impacted, located and live nearby

extractive industry. In partnership with Swandiri Institute, PWYP

Indonesia pilots a community monitoring and reporting program to

promote good governance in extractive industry and government

spending in Sanggau District – crowded with mining, oil-palm, and

forestry industry- in West Kalimantan. We equip local CSOs and

indigenous community of Dayak People on know-how in accessing,

working with data to advocate their aspiration and causes. This

include utilizing a government community reporting complaint

system called LAPOR! Community also develop various reporting

system from video, writing, and social media. We also strengthen

the community complaint handling system by innovating availability

of focal points from local CSOs to advocate and assist community

reports went to the system. We find an improved communities’

understanding to the complex chain of extractive sector, process,

and how it could affect communities. Importantly, communities are

more eager to participate in the chain, especially in monitoring the

operation and the way government spend the revenues.

From Open Data to Public Policy: Helping Shape the Nation

We continually advocating improvement of governance in the extractive sector. We see the Open Data as a valuable asset that can move forward transparency, accountability

and holistic reform in the extractive sector. Through EITI Indonesia Initiative, we provide support to ensure availability of open data format for the report, as well supporting similar format to be implemented in all agencies who involved in governance of extractive sector. Also, we process various findings from data analysis, and drone mapping. Our local partner, Swandiri Institute and indigenous community, progressing revision of regional spatial plan based on more detail and accurate images produced by drone mapping. The community proposal include adjustment to accommodate existing land use, forest zonation, and importantly traditional rights on land. As a result, those recommendation were accommodated in the revision of regional spatial plan (RTRW-P) through Local Regulation Number 10 year 2014. Also, they progressively follow up findings of environmental damage, overlapped in land use, land grabbing practiced by extractive industry.

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About Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia

PWYP Indonesia is a civil society coalition for transparency and accountability of extractive oil and gas resources governance. Established in 2007, and registered as a legal entity in Indonesia since 2012 and names as Yayasan Transparansi Ekstraktif Indonesia. PWYP is built to improve accountability and transparency of extractive resources’ governance in Indonesia and global level, consolidate civil society organizations (CSOs) efforts, and strengthen CSOs capacity to effectively involve in reforming governance of extractive resources for sustainable development. Until May 2015, there are 39 CSOs member of PWYP Indonesia. PWYP Indonesia is affiliated with global PWYP campaign. This coalition’s campaign enforces the birth of global initiatives EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) in countries enriched with oil and gas resources. After a decade, this coalition along with its members expanded its scope of advocacy not only at the revenue chain, but also along the value chain of extractive industry, from contract award to management of extractive revenue.

PWYP Indonesia supported by SEATTI/Hivos initiates optimalisation of information technology to improve governance of extractive sector (i.e.oil and gas, mining) by promoting implementation of open data, building capacity and best practise of civil society to effectively monitor the sector and government program.

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