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AIPNEE supports the Bunong People of Cambodia: Oppose the Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam!
Kbal Romeas is now in the verge of being submerged with the dam’s operation set to begin in 25 Sept. 2017.
IPMSDL Solidarity Statement to the Higaonon Peoples of the Philippines
The Higaonon people’s plight against militarization of their community.
Land Rights Now!
Our GOAL is to work hand in hand with all indigenous brothers and sisters across the globe, in collaboration with other sectors, groups and advocates to secure the collective land rights of more than 370 million indigenous peoples around the world.
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AIPNEE supports the Bunong People of Cambodia: Oppose the Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam!
Kbal Romeas is now in the verge of being submerged with the dam’s operation set to begin in 25 Sept. 2017.
IPMSDL Solidarity Statement to the Higaonon Peoples of the Philippines
The Higaonon people’s plight against militarization of their community.
Land Rights Now!
Our GOAL is to work hand in hand with all indigenous brothers and sisters across the globe, in collaboration with other sectors, groups and advocates to secure the collective land rights of more than 370 million indigenous peoples around the world.
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AIPNEE supports the Bunong People of Cambodia: Oppose the Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam!
Kbal Romeas is now in the verge of being submerged with the dam’s operation set to begin in 25 Sept. 2017.
IPMSDL Solidarity Statement to the Higaonon Peoples of the Philippines
The Higaonon people’s plight against militarization of their community.
Land Rights Now!
Our GOAL is to work hand in hand with all indigenous brothers and sisters across the globe, in collaboration with other sectors, groups and advocates to secure the collective land rights of more than 370 million indigenous peoples around the world.
Shifting the balance of power: Four priorities to protect communities, workers and the environment from transnational corporate harm
Shifting the balance of power: Four priorities to protect communities, workers and the environment from transnational corporate harm is a new report outlining key elements in a new UK corporate accountability law to make it work for the people most affected by UK companies abusing human rights and the environment.
Following years of campaigning for a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act (BHREA) by CJC and partners, the UK Government is finally looking into the adoption of new legislation as part of its into responsible business conduct. But to be effective, a UK BHREA must be grounded in the knowledge and insights of those most impacted by corporate harms – primarily, rightsholders in the Global South. Beyond requiring businesses to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence, it must crucially address the power imbalances that enable abuses to continue with impunity in the first place.
In an effort to shape a model BHREA that responds to these needs, AIPNEE co-hosted regional consultations alongside CJC, the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA), El Proyecto sobre Organización, Desarrollo, Educación e Investigación (PODER), and Partners in Change.
Bringing together the perspective of experts from over 50 civil society organisations and trade unions from across the globe, this report makes recommendations across four key priorities:
• Recognising harm
• Addressing information imbalances
• Enabling access to remedy
• Ensuring preventative action
Download and read full recomendations here
Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN) Sumbawa and AIPNEE file complaints against 14 companies in six countries over the planned mining expansion of PT AMNT in Indonesia impacting Indigenous communities
Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN) Sumbawa chapter and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy (AIPNEE) today filed complaints with the National Contact Points (NCPs) of the governments of Australia, Belgium, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States against 14 multinational companies based in those countries linked to Indonesia’s PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara (PT AMNT) over adverse human rights and environmental impacts of PT AMNT’s planned expansion of mining operations affecting Indigenous Cek Bocek/Selesek Reen Sury community in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara.
The complaints filed citing violations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct target the following companies for their failure to use their leverage over PT AMNT to prevent and mitigate human rights and environmental violations against the Indigenous Cek Bocek community:
1. Australian Winders Pty. Ltd, Macmahon Holdings Ltd, R. Moore & Sons, and Bureau Veritas Minerals Pty. Ltd based in Australia;
2. Bachelet Laboratories of Belgium;
3. LS Metals & Materials Inc. (LS MnM) of South Korea;
4. Glencore International AG, Hartree Metals Sárl, Kuehne + Nagel International AG, and UBS Group AG of Switizerland;
5. Anglo American Marketing Ltd, Alfred H Knight International Ltd, and Blackrock Advisors Ltd in the UK: and
6. Thermo Fisher Scientific based in the US.
PT AMNT, a subsidiary of the AMMAN group, is advancing the Elang Project, an open-pit copper and gold mine expansion planned for the Elang Dodo Forest, the 28,975-hectare ancestral territory of the Indigenous Cek Bocek community. The Elang Dodo Forest is home to over 1,500 ancestral graves, four sacred tributaries, and serves as the site of the community’s annual Jango Kubir ritual. The forest also sustains the community’s economy through sugar palm production, hunting, gathering, and river fishing.
The Elang Project is advancing without the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of the Cek Bocek community, despite the community having continuously inhabited and governed this territory for centuries – with recorded presence dating to 1492. PT AMNT has remained unresponsive to repeated requests for dialogue, human rights assessments, and information disclosure from the community.
In May 2026, the Indonesian government designated the Dodo-Rinti mine area, which encompasses the Elang Block, as a National Strategic Project (NSP). This status grants PT AMNT extraordinary powers, including the deployment of state military and police forces to secure the project and the legal mechanism to forcibly acquire customary territories under the guise of “public interest.” For the Cek Bocek community, this dramatically escalates the risks of forced eviction, criminalization of land defenders, and irreversible destruction of their ancestral forests.
The conflict over the Elang Block dates back to 1986, when PT AMNT’s predecessor company PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NNT) began exploration activities in the Cek Bocek community’s customary territory without meaningful consultation or FPIC. The community has carried out resistance through dialogue, public hearings, boycotts, and direct action for nearly four decades – all of which has been ignored.
In 2021, PT AMNT’s heavy machinery entered the Elang Dodo Forest to open access roads and damaged ancestral burial sites. In September 2024, community members installed signboards at 21 sacred grave complexes to protect them from PT AMNT’s activities and were warned by PT AMNT and Indonesian National Police to stop.
In August 2025, the Indigenous Cek Bocek community (locally recognized as Berco tribe) filed a complaint with The Copper Mark‘s grievance mechanism demanding immediate suspension of PT AMNT’s certification as a responsible mining operator. Indigenous Peoples and civil society organizations worldwide subsequently condemned the certification decision of The Copper Mark for the PT AMNT. In response to the complaint, facilitated dialogues under that mechanism are ongoing. The NCP complaints filed today address the responsibilities of buyers and investors of the PT AMNT under the international due diligence standards of the OECD Guidelines – a dimension that The Copper Mark does not fully cover.
In September , seven UN Special Procedures formally communicated with the Indonesian government about the sustained human rights violations faced by the Cek Bocek community within the wider concerns of human rights situation of Indigenous Peoples in Indonesia.
In the complaints to the NCPs, AMAN Sumbawa and AIPNEE have requested mediation of the NCPs to address the breaches of the OECD Guidelines by the multinational companies due to their relationship with the PT AMNT. For that, they have called on the companies to use their leverage over PT AMNT for addressing the breaches and take steps to prevent and mitigate adverse impacts for ensuring compliance with the Guidelines.
Further, they have called on the companies to:
1. Acknowledge their direct link to the harms inflicted on the Cek Bocek community through their business relationships with PT AMNT;
2. Engage with the affected community and their representatives to ascertain and address their concerns, beginning with efforts to obtain FPIC in line with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP);
3. Condition future purchases from PT AMNT on independent verification that FPIC has been obtained from the Cek Bocek community;
4. Vote against management in shareholder meetings and demand transparency on the land conflict until the grievance is resolved (applicable to investors of the PT AMNT – UBS FM and UBS AM);
5. Consider responsible disengagement, including temporary suspension of their business relationships with PT AMNT, while pursuing leverage-based mitigation.
Indigenous Peoples and Civil Society Organizations Call the International Seabed Authority and its Member States for a Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining
Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy (AIPNEE) submitted today a joint letter, on behalf of Indigenous Peoples organizations, supporting civil society and environmental groups, and individuals from 37 countries around the world, to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) and its Member States calling for a moratorium or precautionary pause on deep sea mining (DSM). The letter was submitted before the meeting of the ISA Member States from 13-31 July 2026, especially given that no Asian Member State has supported a DSM moratorium so far.
The letter – endorsed by 96 Indigenous Peoples organizations and civil society and environmental groups and 32 individuals from 37 countries across the world – highlights why a moratorium or precautionary pause on deep sea mining is imperative from the perspectives of Indigenous Peoples, science, and international law.
In the letter, we recall that Indigenous Peoples are stewards of 25% of the world’s land and seas, and that coastal Indigenous Peoples have a unique understanding of the ocean as “a mother, ancestor, relative, or living kin” that form part of a broader network of reciprocal relationships, responsibilities, and genealogical connections which underpin cultural identity, governance systems, and stewardship practices.
In this context, the letter underscores that
Indigenous Peoples are rightsholders of customary coastal and marine territories, knowledge holders who have and continue to act as sustainable managers of marine environment, and frontliners who most immediately and acutely experience the adverse impacts of exploitative activities at sea.
As stated in the letter, DSM has actual and potential threats to coastal Indigenous communities. Namely, DSM can potentially reduce the biodiversity and productivity of their traditional fisheries caused by waste, noise, and other disturbances from mining, which can lead to unwanted or forced urban migration away from ancestral lands, and ultimately translate as a threat to the Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination, among other rights, as enshrined in international laws, including the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and raises equity concerns under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) UNCLOS.
States, civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations have overwhelmingly voted to call for a moratorium on DSM until and unless FPIC of affected Indigenous Peoples is obtained, among other conditions, at international bodies such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). However, mining companies are aggressively escalating DSM explorations. Hence, it is now more important than ever to stand together to protect the deep sea and all those who depend on it.
We welcome the 43 ISA Member States that have publicly endorsed a moratorium or precautionary pause on DSM. In addition, we lay out specific demands to the ISA and its Member States in the letter:
- We request the Member States that are yet to endorse a moratorium or precautionary pause on DSM to do so immediately and publicly, and to ensure that a moratorium or precautionary pause on DSM is implemented at the ISA.
- We call on the ISA to create space for inclusive and meaningful engagement of Indigenous Peoples in the global dialogue on DSM and ocean governance more broadly by establishing an Indigenous Peoples Advisory Body at the ISA.
Read the full letter here
