Indonesia Mining Watch is a public monitoring platform developed to help people see, read, and understand the overlap between mining permits and forest areas in Indonesia.

The platform was created in response to the urgent need for more accessible spatial information on mining activities. Across many regions, mining expansion does not only affect landscapes. It also threatens community living spaces, people’s managed territories, water sources, biodiversity, and long-term ecological safety.

Through this platform, the public can explore mining permit data, identify potential overlaps with forest areas, and better understand territories facing pressure from extractive industries.

Why This Platform Was Built

Indonesia’s forests are essential for people’s livelihoods, biodiversity protection, climate resilience, and ecological safety across generations. Yet in many regions, forest areas continue to face pressure from mining permits and extractive industry expansion.

This situation requires an open, accessible, and user-friendly monitoring tool that can help civil society, affected communities, researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the wider public understand the scale of the problem more concretely.

Indonesia Mining Watch was developed as a shared information space to strengthen transparency, accountability, and public oversight of mining governance in Indonesia.

Who Built This Platform

This platform was built by Aliansi Sulawesi, a collaborative alliance consisting of:

WALHI South Sulawesi

WALHI Central Sulawesi

WALHI Southeast Sulawesi

The alliance works to strengthen environmental protection, defend people’s rights to their living spaces, and promote fair, transparent, and accountable natural resource governance.

What Users Can Do on This Website

Through this website, users can:

1. View the distribution of mining permits in Indonesia.
2. Identify mining permits that potentially overlap with forest areas.
3. Explore information by region, company, permit type, or forest category.
4. Understand the threats facing essential ecosystems and community living spaces.
5. Use the information as an initial reference for research, advocacy, public campaigns, media reporting, and policy monitoring.

Platform Objectives

This platform aims to:

• Strengthen public access to information on mining permits and forest areas.
• Support data-based monitoring by civil society and communities.
• Assist environmental and community rights advocacy.
• Promote transparency in natural resource governance.
• Provide an initial information base for research, campaigns, and public decision-making.
• Connect spatial data with the broader narrative of ecological justice.

Data Note

The data presented on this platform is intended as an initial monitoring tool. Information on mining permits, forest area boundaries, and territorial overlaps needs to be continuously updated, verified, and interpreted alongside field realities.

This platform is not intended to serve as the final legal reference. Rather, it functions as a public transparency instrument to help identify potential issues and encourage further verification.

Our Commitment

We believe that environmental information must be publicly accessible. When data is locked away, fragmented, or difficult to understand, communities lose an important tool to defend their living spaces.

Indonesia Mining Watch exists to help make the problem visible, strengthen citizen oversight, and encourage a shift toward mining governance that is fairer, more transparent, and grounded in ecological safety.