Jakarta (Antara) – The alliance of Indonesian churches (PGI) responds to the case of nickel -mining in Raja Ampat, Papua, and asks the industry to implement or Responsible Mining.
“The mining industry in Indonesia to seriously implement minor building standards and to respect the capacity of the environment,” said PGI Secretary General PDT Darwin Darmawan on Thursday in his statement in Jakarta.
He also emphasized that the importance of the mining industry that maintains the principles of free, earlier and informed permission (FPIC), so that the partnership that is only with local communities and indigenous peoples are standards that are confirmed in industrial relations with the community.
“During mining activities, players in the mining industry must give priority to the efficiency of resources, minimizing the actions of the environment and execution of biodiversity,” he said.
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PGI also insists on the mining industry in Indonesia to be oriented not only to financial benefits in the short term, but in long-term socio-ecological responsibilities, where justice can be realized from generation to generation.
“For this reason, players from the extractive industry must also ensure that recovery and ecological recovery efforts together with extractive activities are supplied as a form of industrial wisdom, not as a burden after the mines,” Darwin said.
Darwin also stated the importance of the central and regional governments to be more careful and selective in giving or giving recommendations for mining business licenses (IUPs) and industrial national dental areas (KPI), in particular in areas with a high conservation status, usual areas of flasks around the sling around the shocks around the shocks around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals around Seals Around Seal around Seals Around Seal around Seals Around Lights Around Seal around Seals Around Lighting Around Lighting Around Seals Around Lighting Around Settlings. Of the law 1 of 2014 Concerring Ach of Small Islands and Small Islands and Small Islands and Small Islands and Small Islands and Small Islands (WP3K).
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“PGI also insisted on the termination of the moratorium in the issue of IUP and KPI in areas where ecological vulnerability, such as tropical forests, lakes and coastal areas, as well as small islands,” said Darwin.
PGI expressed support for the electricity program that was encouraged by the government, but it was important to ensure that every extractive industrial activity within the electricity framework always gives priority to the principle of ecological justice.
He also emphasized the importance of transparency in the license process, maintaining the balance of ecosystems and biodiversity, and where the community is actively affected as partners in the preservation of nature, life and resources of existence.
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Reporter: Lintang Budiyanti Prameswari
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