Resources

BSR and First Peoples Worldwide (FPW) partnered recently to present a lively, practically focused training on how companies operating in areas inhabited by Indigenous peoples can practice engagement in ways that benefit both companies and communities.

The training focused on gaining a social license to operate, underscoring how companies that do not directly and skillfully address social issues risk losing access to the resources that are fundamental to their businesses. Simultaneously, the training looked at how Indigenous communities are attempting to identify how they might engage with companies to increase their own peoples’ well being, and begin constructive dialogue with companies to foster mutually beneficial relationships.

This story talks about Titian Perdamaian Institutes and their volunteer program for civilian peacekeepers.

Decentralization initiatives have been launched in the majority of developing countries, but these rarely lay the foundations necessary to reach decentralization’s purported efficiency and equity benefits. This paper uses a comparative empirical approach to show how central governments in six countries—Senegal, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia, Bolivia, and Nicaragua—use a variety of strategies to obstruct the democratic decentralization of resource management and, hence, retain central control. Effective decentralization requires the construction of accountable institutions at all levels of government and a secure domain of autonomous decision making at the local level.

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Program for Pollution Control Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) in Indonesia.

Using six case studies, from Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, and Zimbabwe the authors investigate the effect of energy price increases on the poor, inflation, growth, public revenues, and industrial competitiveness.

A research team comprising staff from EAP, ODI and Balfour Beatty Power Networks visited Indonesia in June 2003.The objective of the visit was to capture Balfour Beatty's experience on the Lot 3 Java-Bali 500kV Transmission Line Construction Project, it as an example of a major infrastructure project in Indonesia. It concludes a number of options for construction companies to engage in the reform process with the aim of incentivising the social performance of contractors in relation to poverty reduction. Opportunities for optimizing the poverty reduction performance of construction projects are discussed as well.

This report examines the effectiveness of CSR in Indonesia by addressing two questions. First, does CSR have the capacity to change the behaviour of corporations and second, at this stage of development and given the economic crisis is CSR relevant for Indonesia.

Drawing on an integrated mixed methods research design, the authors explore the dynamics of the development-conflict nexus in rural Indonesia, and the specific role of development projects in shaping the nature, extent, and trajectories of "everyday" conflicts.

Partnerships in the Oil and Gas Industry (2006) communicates how the oil and gas industry is using partnerships to respond to challenges of meeting global energy demand and to contribute to sustainable development.

This study focuses on the potential environmental impacts of the economic crisis in the mining sector in Indonesia. The present study examines the long-term relationship between the mining sector and the environment, as well as more specific crisis-induced changes or repercussions.