Indonesia benefits economically from production of one-third of the world’s mined tin each year. Main sourcing areas are the two islands Bangka and Belitung. Environmental and social of tin production is严重,需要紧急处理。

在2013年可持续贸易倡议(IDH)电子行业公民Coalition®(EICC®)和地球之友(地球之友)的成员召集形成IDH印尼锡工作组。该小组由国际锡行业协会(ITRI)和补充公司成员来自电子产品和马口铁行业的后来加入。

The Working Group aims to address the sustainability challenges of tin mining and smelting in Bangka and Belitung while recognizing the economic benefits of the sector.

The private members of the IDH Indonesian Tin Working Group are: Alpha, Arcelor Mittal, ASUS, Apple, BlackBerry, Dell, HP, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Philips, Samsung, Sony, Tata Steel, Huawei. These companies aim to support their supply chain partners to continue sourcing tin from Indonesia in a responsible way.

该工作组的非营利成员都是EICC,工研院及地球之友。

The program focuses on driving the implementation of a roadmap for responsible tin mining in Indonesia.

Next to that, the program is creating the necessary incentives that midstream and downstream tin users (Tin Working Group private members) can implement to support a lasting tin industry transformation.

IDH partnered with Aidenvironment to capture the journey, challenges and accomplishments of the Tin Working Group, a 3 year partnership with down-stream and mid-stream users of the sector. The result of Aidenvironment’s research, interviews and analysis can be found in thisfinal program report。Enjoy the read!

To better understand the situation and the potential ways for downstream companies to take constructive action to improve sustainable tin mining practices in Bangka-Belitung, in 2013 the IDH Indonesian Tin Working Group commissioned a situational analysis and sustainability assessment. The analysis and assessment has aided the Group’s understanding of the local situation as a starting point for exploring ways to support sustainable growth through responsible sourcing.

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Together with local stakeholders the TWG developed the Roadmap of Sustainable Tin Mining Operations in Indonesia. This 4-year plan towards more sustainable tin mining, includes programmatic interventions with the following goals:

  • 协作与印尼(印度政府)的政府对统一的法律和政策框架作为良好治理的基础,特别是在解决围绕个体和小规模采矿的挑战。
  • Develop and implement guidelines or standards of responsible mining industry practices as well as assurance mechanisms
  • Work towards improved equitable revenue governance from tin mining to support responsible practices, including land management during reclamation and community capacity strengthening.
  • 对环境负责任的开采和冶炼工作,最大限度地降低开采和冶炼对环境的影响。
  • Enable the socioeconomic development of the community in Bangka Belitung Province through responsible business practices, and to lessen their dependency on tin

In 2016, the TWG partnered with two Implemented partners (co-funded by IDH together individual TWG members) to facilitate and coordinate the roadmap implementation in 2016:

  • Kemitraan, a local NGO to engage with the Government of Indonesia on the harmonization and transparency of the legal and policy framework. The objective is to work toward the development of a foundation of good governance by fostering inter-ministerial coordination.
  • 西塔Supomo,作为当地代表TWG在印度尼西亚,以协调对路线图的执行情况的行业合作伙伴的努力和负责任的做法试点。

最后,TWG推出了两个试点,以支持一些2020年路线图的初步工作,涉及影响的领域,使当地产业由原型而这又可以通过国际产业全国复制和公认的最佳做法,以获得更清晰的方向。这些飞行员​​已经共同出资由IDH和技术工作组的成员。

The TWG received official written endorsement of relevant Indonesian Ministries to start the engagement with the local industry (Ministry of Trade, Mining and Mineral Resources, Marine affairs and fisheries, Environment and Forestry). A significant part of the Indonesian mining industry is under direct control of the government (public companies), therefore this government endorsement is crucial.

该TWG与Kemitraan合作,当地非政府组织与政府合作,以促进多方利益攸关者对话解决需要协调政策和法规,提高法律框架的透明度的长期经验。这些磋商的结果作为制定可持续锡矿开采管理的政策工具,通过Kemitraan重要建议。这一政策工具已被提交给总统执行办公室和矿业和能源部为矿产和煤炭法修订的输入。在添加Kemitraan看着收入分配管理的治理。

To this date, mined land is hardly being reclaimed in Babel and there has been almost no successful reclamation process and completed projects to inspire industry, community and government. One of the key issue is that reclamation needs to further incentivized. This applies not just to mining companies, but to the community as whole: providing alternative livelihood to ASM miners and communities is needed to create a more sustainable future and disincentive re-mining of land.

In order to support the local industry to address such a salient issue (in line with the 2016-2020 Roadmap of Sustainable Tin Mining Operations in Indonesia) the TWG commissioned Fred Phillips Consulting, to work with the local industry and develop a state of the art conceptual design of reclamation practice including Better Management Practices. Such practices and design guidelines can be adopted by other mining companies and be replicated across Bangka, creating a shared vision within the industry and set the benchmark. The design has been carried out in collaboration with Telepak (a local NGO), and for enabling the private sector mining company PT. Bangka Belitung Timah Sejahtera (PT BBTS) to redesign its reclamation plan. Consultations with industry stakeholders have also be carried out (including among others AETI, UBB, Provincial and Federal Government, various regional/local experts).

The mining company PT BBTS has committed to implement the conceptual design conceptual design which as should be implemented on their 10ha land. Additionally, through the work of the project partners and the TWG local representative, other AETI members are considering replicating these best management practices within their reclamation plans. PT. Refined Bangka Tin (RBT) for instance, plans to start the reclamation process in 2017.

For more details and access to the reclamation design guidelines, please download the documentshere

在2015年,全国产量的75%来自个体小规模采矿(ASM)。这在很大程度上正规部门与它承载着一些风险,从严重到可以控制的。山体滑坡是在陆上部门顶部的健康和安全问题,卫生和卫生问题十分普遍。虽然政策和监管环境的渐进式改革是建立对个体规模小矿主合法化途径至关重要,技术工作组旨在帮助当地产业更好地了解特定的健康和安全问题是什么,可以是什么类型的活动开展解决这些问题。

The TWG has commissioned PACT, an international non-profit organization, to observe the occupational health and safety risks for artisanal and small-scale miners in Indonesia’s tin mines of Bangka-Belitung province and propose the design of a future program to improve the health and wealth of Bangka-Belitung’s tin miners. Pact is collaborating with local non-governmental organization Telapak on this work, which will conclude in April 2017. The project has identified key priority topics for the Indonesian cassiterite sector, including miner and community health, safety, and environmental rehabilitation. By coupling its experience and insights of the Indonesian sector, Pact conducted a Training Needs Assessment and Situational Analysis as a foundation for developing an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Toolkit that captures recommendations for how to approach similar ASM OHS challenges in other contexts and minerals.

Finally, Pact will create an implementation plan for capacity building and improving occupational health and safety in Bangka-Belitung with recommendations for the type of financial and other support necessary for successful implementation. Such work will enable the industry to define the minimum acceptable practices for addressing the issues of health and safety, creating functional value to the companies and to the supply chain actors for embedding better practices.

For more details and access to the reclamation design guidelines, please download the documentshere

Mining is a matter of supply and demand, and there is an increasing demand for responsible mining. To encourage the sustainable tin mining economy, mining companies and countries are exploring business models and regulations that go beyond a focus on extraction only, including also environmental and social aspects.

通过IDH TWG从下游企业推广后,锡矿山和冶炼企业在印尼目前正在研究的路线图的实施,一个长期计划来改造印尼锡行业注入了更多环境和社会负责的企业。

公司在他们的产品(锡用户)使用锡可以增值到该计划,激励的实施,通过使他们的贡献和未来的角色更加明确。

TheTWG Incentives Guide列出了不同的奖励是中游和下游用户锡可以实现以支持持久的锡产业转型。

The goal of these incentives is to support, engage and drive the upstream industry in Indonesia towards more responsible practices, in addition to and in support of the efforts already underway within the roadmap. In this document the term “responsible mining” is used to cover a broad scope of mining related activities, including mining, smelting, as well as pre- and post-mining activities including land rehabilitation.

The different approaches to create incentives are grouped under three headings

1.途径进行国际协调与支持
2. Approaches for supply chain policy and transparency
3.途径为直接管理。

凡中旬与下游产业之间适用的区分已经作出,以反映不同的方法可用取决于其在供应链中的地位的公司。

For each approach we indicated whether it is an incentive that can be implemented by all TWG members, or whether it is an incentive that might not be applicable or feasible for each of the TWG members due to the nature of their business, products, supply chain or other reasons.

技术工作组的成员都赞同这一激励导向的原则,并致力于共同方向向往过以下实现的方式是适当的,可行的考虑每个公司的独特的特点在他们的公司和供应链的方法。在2016年2月的技术工作组由以下成员组成:阿尔法,安赛乐米塔尔,华硕,苹果,黑莓,戴尔,惠普,LG电子,微软,飞利浦,三星,索尼,华为,塔塔钢铁公司。


The TWG delegation met with key players in Jakarta, Bangka and Belitung during two field visits in 2015. The first visit, in April 2015 was key to build a coalition between international TWG members and local influencers to start the collaboration. The second visit, in December 2015 was pivotal for agreeing on the 2016-2020 roadmap.

2016年IDH致力于扩大其参与智慧h Indonesia tin mining industry and maintain the international convening of the Tin Working Group. The purpose of the revised strategy was to work on strengthening the buy-in of the local industry towards the 2016-2020 Roadmap for Responsible Mining (including government commitment, and key industry player(s)), while working on developing best practices via field level pilot projects.

在2017年3月,印尼锡工作组(TWG)的国际召集人的作用将IDH转移到电子行业公民联盟(资格)。在承担国际召集人role, the EICC has worked with IDH and the TWG members and stakeholders to understand the TWG’s current activity scope and participation/funding model as well as future priorities and opportunities to encourage a responsible tin supply in Indonesia. EICC will continue to conduct outreach to current TWG members and TWG stakeholders to develop a strategic plan that builds on TWG’s past work, complements other initiatives, engages local businesses and stakeholders, and establishes reasonable implementation approaches. The strategic plan for the next phase of TWG will include seeking external funding to support international and local convening activities, on-the-ground mitigation projects, research, and guidance development. For more information , please contact Leah Butler atlbutler@eiccoalition.org