This section looks into issues of illegality of ASM. Research has been undertaken in regions of Indonesia and India. Although there is no reliable statistical data on illegal mining in Indonesia, it is believed that these activities have a significant impact on the country’s mining industry. Not only is it a breeding place of social, economic, and environmental problems. Illegal mining also absorbs more employment than any formal mining sector reaching those who live at the lower end…

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Title	Year	Author	Country	Type	Key Words
‘May God Give Us Chaos, So That We Can Plunder’: A critique of ‘resource curse’ and conflict	2006	Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt	India	published paper	informal mining, communities, illegal, Indian collieries, resource curse, resource conflicts
Illegal Coal Mining in Eastern India: Rethinking Legitimacy and Limits of Justice	2007	Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt	India	published article	illegal, coal, environment, mining laws