The increasing awareness of the negative environmental, social, and political impact of corporate activities has prompted large Indonesian mining companies to publish reports that communicate their awareness of such issues. This research employed Van Leeuwen’s (2008) socio-semantic framework to analyse the ways in which Indonesian companies construct social actors in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. The analysis reveals that the companies draw on a fixed set of linguistic devices and strategies when representing the issue related with the company. With these findings in mind, the study argues that these linguistic representations have an important role in maintaining relationships of power, dominance and social inequality in the Indonesian mining industry.