The Revenue Watch IKAT-US project is a USAID-funded partnership with three Indonesian nongovernmental organizations and civil society counterparts from Southeast Asia. Partners work together to promote effective transparency and accountability campaigns focused on the oil, gas and mining industries, and targeting regional, national and subnational authorities.
The ASPAC Knowledge Hub activities kicked off on May 6-7, 2013, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with the goal of improving the quality of governance in the extractive sector and to promote more equitable benefits for the citizens of the region.
A November workshop in Jakarta aimed to increase civil society participation in ASEAN by giving civil society groups the ability to develop advocacy strategies toward ASEAN in their home countries.
More and more, local, regional and provincial governments are directly dealing with oil, gas and mining issues, and are facing challenges managing and governing those resources for their regions’ well-being.
Under the IKAT-US framework, the role of Indonesian Parliamentary Center (IPC) is to document and share the Indonesian experience that led up to becoming an EITI candidate country in the hopes that it will contribute to effective national advocacy in other Southeast Asian countries.
So far, the government of Cambodia has remained unreceptive to joining the transparency initiative.
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EI Watch: EI Watch is a web-portal developed by RWI’s Indonesian IKAT-US partner, the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), to overview the extractive industries situation in Southeast Asia.
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Jakarta Post: With EITI, Indonesia Incorporates Transparency into Governance (21 November 2012)
