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Financial Intermediary-01

Issues

Community health and safety

Description: Complaint raises concerns related to public health and safety including incidents of or an increase in accidents, release of hazardous materials, and spread of diseases. Concerns related to retaliation and/or violence are not included.

Complaints with this Issue: 359

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Consultation and disclosure

Description: Complaint raises concerns regarding inadequate or absent consultation about or disclosure of project information, including project impacts and/or mitigation plans.

Complaints with this Issue: 526

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Due diligence

Description: Complaint raises concerns about inadequate or absent prior investigation of project impacts.

Complaints with this Issue: 482

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Environmental

Description: Complaint raises concerns regarding environmental impacts that do not refer specifically to water, pollution, or biodiversity.

Complaints with this Issue: 387

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Indigenous peoples

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on indigenous or traditional communities.

Complaints with this Issue: 88

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Other

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts that do not fit in one of the other categories. Complaints about which there is no publicly available information regarding the issues raised are also included.

Complaints with this Issue: 215

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Pollution

Description: Complaint raises concerns about releases of pollutants related to the project, including hazardous or non-hazardous chemicals, minerals, metals, pathogens, odors, noise, vibration, radiation, light, and heat.

Complaints with this Issue: 226

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Property damage

Description: Complaint raises concerns about specific harm to property, including buildings, land, or property value. Concerns related to physical or economic displacement, pollution, or community health and safety are not included.

Complaints with this Issue: 169

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Water

Description: Complaint raises concerns about access to or availability of water. Concerns related to water pollution are not included.

Complaints with this Issue: 194

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Sectors

Financing

Description:

Complaints in this Sector: 19

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Project

Name: PSBC Equity

Investments: IFC 35461

Client: Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC)

Support: Equity

Country: Indonesia

Complaint

IAM: Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO)

ID: indonesia-financial-intermediary-01

Date Filed: Oct. 31, 2019

Date Closed: July 8, 2022

Status: Closed Without Outputs

Description

In October 2019, CAO received a complaint from two local residents on behalf of themselves and other community members living in the vicinity of the Dairi Prima Mineral (DPM) project. DPM is a zinc and lead mine under development in the Dairi Regency of North Sumatra province, Indonesia. The complainants are supported by an international NGO, Inclusive Development International (IDI), and other organizations based in Indonesia, including Perhimpunan Bantuan Hukum dan Advokasi Rakyat Sumatera Utara (BAKUMSU). The complainants alleged that the DPM mine will adversely impact neighboring communities. They expressed particular concern over the potential failure of the mine’s planned tailings dam, which would present significant—and potentially irreversible risks—to people and the environment. The complainants assert that the design of the tailings dam is inadequate for the extreme climate and seismicity of the site, and is inconsistent with good international industry practice. Additional allegations regarding the mine include risks of water contamination from the tailings dam, inadequate stakeholder engagement and information disclosure, failure to recognize potentially affected communities as Indigenous Peoples, and risks to social cohesion and community health and safety. The complainants also alleged that IFC was exposed to the DPM mine through its financial intermediary investments in Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) and another commercial bank.

Complaint Stages

Filing

Oct. 31, 2019

Filing

Status:

Start Date: Oct. 31, 2019

Registration

Not Undertaken

Registration

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Not offered by mechanism, Stage is not practiced by mechanism

Eligibility

Oct. 31, 2019 -

Jan. 19, 2022

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: Oct. 31, 2019

End Date: Jan. 19, 2022

Dispute Resolution

Not Undertaken

Dispute Resolution

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Actor(s) involved refused to participate; Actor(s) involved refused to participate, All parties involved refused to go through dispute resolution

Compliance Review

Jan. 19, 2022 -

July 8, 2022

Compliance Review

Status: Closed Without Output

Explanation: Funding and/or consideration ended

Has Compliance Report: Yes

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Case closed in earlier stage

Closed

July 8, 2022

Timeline

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