Selected dated regional reports. Points locate regions, not incidents or people.
Period: see sourceHRM · linked reporting ↗← FollowingReported displacement Reported conflict Reported military presence Roads & place labels Provinces Cultural/reference regions Registered customary territories Language reference points Mining permits Major extraction sites Forest & plantation permits Protected areas Fire hotspots Forest loss Water permanence Surface-water change Rainfall anomaly Major roads Airports Ports Settlements Population distribution Current developments
Mining in Raja Ampat
Current picture
Greenpeace reports that PTUN Jakarta upheld public access to the four permit-revocation decisions and implementation records on 14 September 2026. The dispute now includes whether the announced revocations can be checked through official documents; disclosure and ecological recovery remain separate questions.
Have the revocation decisions and implementation records been released?
Background
Mining in Raja Ampat involves particular islands, permits, companies and customary territories. Tourism and marine conservation make the region internationally visible, but the effects of extraction also concern forest, freshwater and local livelihoods on the islands themselves.
On 10 June 2025 the government announced four permit revocations, while distinguishing PT Gag Nikel, whose permit remained. This was not an announcement that all mining had ended. Following the decision requires evidence of operations, compliance and site recovery, as well as community accounts. An island-specific observation should not be presented as a measurement for the whole archipelago.
Latest developments
Timeline.
2025
Four permits revoked
ESDM announced the revocation of permits for ASP, MRP, KSM and Nurham. PT Gag Nikel’s permit remained in force.
Historical and sacred sites around Waigeo and Gam. ANU Press, Figure 8.5. Gag Nikel resumes under oversight
A September report citing the energy ministry dates Gag Nikel’s resumption to 3 September after a temporary suspension. The government promised stricter monitoring and rehabilitation. Gag’s operation is separate from the four companies whose permits were revoked in June.
Sources 1
The Jakarta Post / Asia News Network
2026
Court upholds access to revocation records
Greenpeace reports that PTUN Jakarta rejected BKPM’s objection to disclosing the four revocation decisions and their implementation details, affirming the Central Information Commission’s decision.
Sources 1
Greenpeace Indonesia
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Reports in this period
Regional reference points. Partial coverage; not live positions.
BIG · Bappenas · ESDM · NASA FIRMS · Source: layer metadata
Map sources & notes
Selected dated regional reports. Points locate regions, not incidents or people.
Period: see sourceHRM · linked reporting ↗Selected dated regional reports. Points locate regions, not incidents or people.
Period: see sourceHRM · linked reporting ↗OpenStreetMap roads and labels at local zoom levels. Coverage varies; absence is not proof that a road or community does not exist.
Period: see source© OpenStreetMap contributors · EOX rendering ↗The six current Indonesian provinces in Western New Guinea.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Generalized to whole regencies; internal customary boundaries can differ.
Period: see sourceBappenas membership · BIG administrative geometry ↗Unavailable until geometry reuse is explicitly defensible; no scraping or sensitive-site import.
Period: see sourceBRWA ↗Representative language locations only. A dated Wurm–Hattori 1981/83 polygon atlas can be added separately as a historical reference layer.
Period: see sourceGlottolog 5.3 · BIG province geometry ↗IUP/WIUP mining-permit polygons clipped to the six Papua provinces.
Period: see sourceKementerian ESDM · Ditjen Minerba ↗Site points identify operations; they are not permit boundaries.
Period: see sourceSourced operating-site metadata ↗Plantation coverage is partial where public services expose only local layers.
Period: see sourceKLHK · BIG Satu Peta ↗Published conservation zoning available through BIG Satu Peta.
Period: see sourceBIG Satu Peta · environmental data producers ↗NASA FIRMS thermal detections over the last 2 days. Near real time; not confirmed wildfires.
Period: see sourceNASA FIRMS · VIIRS NOAA-21 ↗Derived web raster; source year/version is recorded in atlas status.
Period: see sourceHansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA ↗Share of valid Landsat observations with water, 1984–2024. Pale pink to deep blue: occasional to persistent water. Not current flooding.
Period: see sourceSource: EC JRC/Google ↗EC JRC Global Surface Water transitions, 1984–2024.
Period: see sourceEC JRC/Google ↗Monthly anomaly in millimetres; latest available preliminary/final product.
Period: see sourceCHIRPS v3 · Climate Hazards Center / FAO distribution ↗Public BIG transport/RBI road geometry, simplified for the Watch atlas.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Public BIG aviation atlas locations.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Public BIG/RBI port locations.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Sparse named settlement/capital layer from public BIG/RBI data.
Period: see sourceBadan Informasi Geospasial ↗Modeled distribution, not a census enumeration at 100 m.
Period: see sourceWorldPop 2026 ↗Published Watch Developments placed using canonical Places.
Period: see sourceWest Papua Watch · linked reporting ↗Library.
Browse all ↗Research · 2026
Implementasi Prinsip Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) dalam Pemenuhan Hak Masyarakat Adat di Papua Barat
repository.unpas.ac.id
Recent FPIC thesis with relevance to Raja Ampat mining and Indigenous rights.
Research · 2025
Spatial Planning Model for Optimizing Conservation Priorities for Local Community Utilization on Arefi Island in the Raja Ampat MPA
doi.org
Community-use and marine-conservation spatial planning.