On 15 August 2025, a coalition of Indonesian, local Lombok, and international civil society organizations, including the Indigenous Sasak community, issued an appeal letter to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) urging urgent intervention in the AIIB-financed Mandalika Urban and Tourism Project in Lombok, Indonesia. The letter alleges forced land confiscation, arbitrary compensation, flawed consultations, lack of transparency, a defunct grievance mechanism, militarized intimidation, and over 100 unresolved land disputes.

On 17 July 2025, a press release was issued by the Coalition for Monitoring Infrastructure Development (KPPI), AGRA, and Lombok Legal Studies and Aid (LSBH), condemning violent forced evictions in Tanjung Aan Beach involving over 700 military, police, and private security personnel, affecting Indigenous Sasak families, journalists, and rights defenders. Over 2,000 residents have been displaced since 2019 without fair compensation or livelihood restoration. The groups demand an immediate halt to evictions, reinstatement of a functioning grievance mechanism, full disclosure of project data, and fair resettlement.

The Business and Human Rights Resource Center invited AIIB and ITDC for comment. AIIB provided a response. ITDC did not.