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1. Socio- Economic Issues Behind KBZ cement
factory in Poung Taw Choke village,
Taunggyi Township, Southern Shan State,
Myanmar
Khun Zaw Naung, ERS 2018

2. Map Of Project Area
Mount Pinpet Project

3. Research MethodologyObjective of research
1. To find out if people who lost their land
were compensated fairly.
2. To understand impacts of the KBZ
cement factory on the community.
3. To access the information from young
people and local community
movement.
4. To collect data on information available
about the cement project.
Primary Research
 village populations, the project detai
and photograph, recording, note taki
and villagers stories
Secondary Research
 PYO report(Pa-oh youth Organization
 KSN report(Kaung Rwai Social
 PDI
 Search for common ground
 Online

4. Table Contents
 Map of KBZ cement factory
 Background information
 Negative Impacts on the communities
 No guarantee of jobs opportunity
 Community movement and their Attitudes
 Recommendation & Conclusion with Documentary
film

5. Background information's
• A part of Pinpet Mining project.
• Began 7 of August 2006, operated in
2014
• Located Southern of Shan State,
Myanmar
• Area 728.31 acres
• Investors KBZ company, A1 construction,
Aung Myit Thu’s company and Power
Mine raw materials company
• Investment USD 60 million
 The majority of the villagers near the
KBZ factory are members of the Pa-Oh
ethnic nationality several ethnic Shans
and Indians (Galraka)
 At the base of cement factory, 1191
people and 219 house hold live in 4
villages.
 Most villagers are depending on
agriculture and breeding animals.
Community backgroundKBZ cement factory

6. KBZ cement factory and Village

7. Negative Impacts on The communities
 Environmental impacts
 Resources were damaged due to mining
of mountain
 Air Pollutions
 Food insecurity
 Noise pollution
 Deforestation and loss of vegetation
cover

8.  Impact of water resources
 Lost of water resources when exploration
mine
 Raw materials come from the mine
exploration of mountains.
 Main sources of water are carry from Nam
Ta Best stream to use for the industry
 More than 100 village and 35,000 people
are depending on Nam Ta Best stream for
agriculture, fishing, drinking and bathing.
Nam Ta Best stream
Lange Nauk water sources area

9.  Social Impact
 Compensation of land grabbing
• Totally of plot 728.31 acres
• 1 million kyats per acres
• Only gave for 400 acre
• New laws on land and investment that
change the legal basis for land use
rights
• 2012 new law does not protect for
indigenous just benefit for investors
and companies
• When the mine explore, rocks is falling
to the farm land. The farm land cannot
grow anymore.
The rocks falling down to the farm land, at the back site of (Lay Kroung
Mountain)

10.  Rare of the pastureland
• Community are depend on
breed crowns and Buffalo
• Some part of land those are
not used, they just grow corns
and benefit for industry staffs
• land owner were demanded
for farm land and pastureland
• In 2017, the industry did canal
and putting the chemical
fertilizers on the way make
animal do not come to their
plantation.
There are crows of Poung Taw Choke village
Canal of KBZ cement factory
That is the Chemical to protect the crow

11.  Culture destruction
• Naung Kyo village cemetery and Spirit
house have been grabbed for the
industry boundary.
• There is no longer to be a space for
entombment challenge in the future.
• This means no respect or recognized
culture and religious identity of village
ritual.
Naung Kyo village cemetary
Spirit house of Naung Kyo village

12. No guarantee in jobs opportunity
 Totally 350 staffs in the KBZ cement
factory. Two of third of factory worker are
daily.
 Most of the local people doesn’t get it
easy
 10 persons from Poung Taw Choke village
and 7 persons from Aung Mur village
 Villager couldn’t work long term in the
industry
 Incident or dad, they don’t have health,
life guarantee and fair compensation
from the factory.
 3 of the factory worker were died by the
operating.
2 of construction Worker in the KBZ cement factory13

13. KBZ new road construction
 Taunggyi - Hopone the union road to KBZ
cement factory
 expend around (2,230,000,000) kyat and long
distance is estimate 5 mile.
 rock and sand from the rock mountain at the
north part of industry
 Corn plantation were damaged by mine
exploration. Corn plantation were damaged by mine
KBZ new road

14. Community movement and their attitude
 Environment training, land law
training, workshop and press
conference
 Kaung Rawi Social Network conducted
the press conference in December
2017 from that the local youth’s
activists demanded are-
• To drive the trucks slowly
• To reduce the noise from the factory
• To build the concrete road as fast as
they can.
• To stop producing fume.
 Stop to use the raw materials from our
(Lay Kroung)P Mountain. Because our
livelihood are depending on those
mountain
 Do more sustainable development,
transparency and cooperate with local
villager
 The company have to establish their
promised. Note, villager have chance
to get 2% of benefit per bag of cement
before the project start.
Youth activist voice Local villager voice

15. Legislation
• 1994 Myanmar Mine law
• 2012 Myanmar investment law
• 2012 Environmental Conservation law
• 2015 Environmental Impact Assessment
law

16. Campaign plan
• Booklet/ research paper and
documentary film
• Awareness about the environmental and
Fundamental rights training.

17. Recommendation
To local people
1. Should know about land rights (Act 2012)
and work to increase awareness of other
legal rights
2. Should not sell the land to other people,
such as companies or the outside of
investors
Regional government
To Regional government
1. The government must enforce the law
and conduct an assessment of KBZ
cement factory to make sure that it is
complying with the law
2. Have to return the cemetery and spirit
house of Naung Kyo village to the
people
KBZ Company
1. The company have to do research, how much
affect on the Environmental, health problems
and social economic by their factory
2. Have to give to the land owners’ compensation
fairly and pastureland as they do not use
3. Have to give back the cemetery and spirit house
boundary of Naung Kyo village to the
community.

18. THANK YOU
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