Activities of the mining industry in the last two decades increasingly draw the attention of many parties, especially the environmental movement activists and human rights advocacy NGO network. This was due to a paradox in the mining exploration activities which are often in conflict with the interests of natural resource conservation and environmental management.
The direct impact of mining activities, particularly mining of gold and copper including the ecological damage such as reduced water and soil that flow to rivers , sea water pollution, sedimentation damage to forest land is still the unsolved problems thoroughly. The most disturbing fact is now an adverse effect in the long chain. The intensity of the impact of mining gold and copper exploration not only changes the degree of the quality of natural resources and environmental harm of the present generation but also the loss for future generations. The lesson teaches that the pre-exploration activity has triggered deforestation, because the content of gold, copper and other minerals in the soil at certain depths and layers within the earth. It also found the facts in various areas of mining exploration has always been pockets of poverty massif, poverty, active and passive poverty.
If poverty is active occurs because someone lost the resources to empower themselves and sustain its life, the passive poverty occurs because the loss of access to participate in the decision making process and the utilization of existing resources around them. Widespread poverty forms of active and passive, this is the main cause of the emergence of massive poverty amid famine marked by luxury, extravagance amid mass dropout education budget, amid mass frailty extravagant and wasteful lifestyle of the investor.
Sadly, this fact occurs in almost all areas where the mining industry sector investors to explore gold, copper and various kinds of precious stones, minerals, metals, tin, nickel, and others. IFV.
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