In 2009, Indonesia's extractive sector accounted for 27% of national revenue—overwhelmingly from oil and natural gas. However, in petroleum-rich regions of Indonesia, like the Bojonegoro district, farmers priced out of the land market have come to worry that there is no advantage to being an oil town—that the extractive industry is "only business for the big shots," in the words of one regional farmer.
This week, Revenue Watch's Indonesian partner PATTIRO released a short video created by Nanang Sujana (who has documented PATTIRO's work in the past) and Gekko Studio, with support from RWI and the Local Government Initiative.
People, Oil, Policy; Playing between welfare and curse from Gekko Studio on Vimeo.
In it, community leaders in some of Indonesia's oil-producing districts discuss both the detrimental aspects of hosting extractive industry—from struggling farmers to health problems—and also the efforts of civil society groups to involve the community in planning for sustainable development through transparency, democracy and accountability.
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