Sejarah dan Konsep Pembangunan Berkelanjutan sebagai Tujuan Sosial dan Prinsip Dasar Pembangunan Berkelanjutan
Konsep Sustainable Development atau Pembangunan Berkelanjutan pertama kali diperkenalkan sebagai tujuan sosial pada konferensi pertama PBB dalam bidang Lingkungan Hidup di Stocklom pada tahun 1972. Latar belakang diadakan konferensi tersebut dipicu oleh kekhawatiran global akan kemiskinan yang berlarut-larut dan meningkatnya ketidakadilan sosial, ditambah dengan kebutuhan pangan dan masalah lingkungan global serta kesadaran bahwa ketersedian sumber daya alam untuk mendukung pembangunan ekonomi amatlah terbatas. Read more
Last October, 16-18, 2016, Indonesia Institute of Sustainable Mining (IISM) represented by Rezki Syahrir together with the Federal Institute for Geosciene and Natural Resources (BGR) represented by Christoph Klein conducted a site visit to Singkep, Lingga Regency, and to Bintan, Bintan Regency, Province Riau islands . The visit came in the framework of research and comparative studies on the used land mining at the site. 
Since around three hundred years ago, Singkep island, which is located in the Lingga regency, Province of Riau Islands, had become one of the largest tin mine site in the world. However, as the mining activities undertaken by majority of local people and some mining companies have been closed, the former mining areas are left abandoned.
As an institution which concern on sustaibnability issues in mining industry, IISM collaborates with PT Bukit Asam (PTBA) for a community-based agro-industry development project. The project is located on PTBA’s former coal mining land in Tanjung Enim, Muara Enim, South Sumatra.