Environmental Impact of Mining Industry

Oleh Dewa Gumay

AGENCY of Business miner, government, and economic expert, smart in frame mining investment, such as mineral mining, oil, and gas. Beginning of frame foreign exchange, provide employment, speedy economic growth, until reduce of poor statistic. ‘Framing’ perfect, yet, truly mining industry will be bringing prosperity for people.

There is a joke, which said often by group of pro mining while comment critical attitude from peoples refuse attendance mining industry, its site. More or less, ‘If not agree with mining, back again to Palaeolithic era, and never using equipment from mineral raw’. This joke they are doing as philosophy suicide on disability them to explaining relation with mining and prosperity which truly not positive relation.

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Can REDD Keep Indonesia’s Forests Green?


It’s the hottest acronym going in the world of climate change. The UN-backed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation is being touted as both the saviour of rain forests and a new natural resource commodity that will bring untold riches to the developing world.

The concept, also known as REDD, is both simple and ingenious: Countries can sell credits on the amount of carbon their forests and rain forests soak up to industrialized nations that need to reduce emissions, thereby protecting their environment, stopping global warming and ensuring a sustainable future income without having to chop down the trees.

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Payment of Environmental Services in Aceh

By Dewa Gumay

PROGRESS of environmental issues on this decade, happening progress very fast, beginning from environmental degradation, conservation, and the new issue is scheme of Payment of Environmental Services (PES).

Actually, basis for PES theory was arise fifty years a go from a Britain economist at the Chicago University, Ronald Harry Coase in its article The Problem of Social Cost on 1960. On its article, Coase accept Economic Nobel on 1991. According to Coase, “in as much as environment loss gets monetary character therefore attained optimal solution will same, despite on whom property rights is given”.

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