DATA COLLECTION AND RECONCILIATION CONTEXTUAL REPORT

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C. DATA COLLECTION AND RECONCILIATION

The Implementation Team and The National Secretariat always monitored the development of Independents Administrators IA data collection and reconciliation. Both The Implementation Team and National Secretariat also help the IA to solve bureaucracy problems between institutions and companies that hamper the IA to get data needed. Every month, IA gave presentation about the progress of the data collecting to the Implementation Team in the Implementation Team meeting. Not all companies sent their template on time during the month of June to September 2015. In the beginning of October 2015, The National Secretariat invited 20 companies that have not submit the template, but only 3 companies 2 mining companies and 1 non operator oil and gas company that came to the meeting. Until the publication of the report, 21 companies fail to return reporting format – consisting of 6 companies in 2012, 9 companies in 2013, and 6 companies in both 2012 and 2013. Meanwhile, 7 companies in 2012 and 11 companies in 2013 did not return authorization letter. The lack of sanction a d the co pa ies’ nonexistence were the main factors that cause those companies did not send the templates. The data from the government especially DG Tax can be gathered after the IA get data from the co pa ies ecause it eeded co pa ies’ agree e t for DG Ta to release the data.

D. CONTEXTUAL REPORT

The preparation of contextual report was a big challenge for all of the EITI stakeholders, because it was a new requirement in the 2013 EITI Standard. It brought the development of the new EITI Report from the previous ones that only contain reconciliation report. The contextual report gave information of I do esia e tracti e i dustr . It pro ided co prehe si e illustratio o the sector’s legal fra ework as well as governance mechanism, types of contractlicense, current licensing process, payments of companies to central and local government, and sharing mechanisms between central and local government. It also explains the participation of State-Owned Enterprises SOEs in Indonesian extractive industry. The IA collected information for contextual report from many sources including presentation from resources person in the seminar and Focus Group Discussion that was held by the National Secretariat.

E. APPROVAL AND PUBLICATION OF THE EITI REPORT