The beauty of Mount Ijen, Java Island
Day or night is almost the same in Ijen crater. Alternatively, the sulfur or sulfur, miners keep the performance of their works. The stench of sulfur seems to stimulate them since their lives depend on it. Their hours of work is timeless. It depends on your ability to do their work. "It indeterminate. Some people start early in the morning and return home by daylight. While others work at night, spend the night at the POS Bund (name of top spot despite its burden on the scale, which is located on the mountain slope), "said Suhairi, one of the charge carriers (the one with the sulfur in his shoulder).
The mining of sulfur in the crater Ijen is under the management of PT Candi Ngrimbi and supervised by state agencies of mining and forestry. Mount Ijen is located in Situbondo regency, East Java, on the east side of the borders in the regency of Banyuwangi Situbondo. It is 50 kms or 2 hours drive from Situbondo.
Ijen crater is located 2386 meters above the sea 175 meters deep and 1 km2 large. Included in the category of largest crater in the world. The water in the crater Ijen has a high degree of acidity can dissolve the clothes and damage our skin when we touch it. Moreover, the sulfur vapor can obstruct your breathing. However, sulfur workers, has become a part of their lives. It is used for breathing vapor sulfuric taking loads on their shoulders. They have to walk for about 3 kms or two hours Paltuding crater (the last place for tourists to climb the mountain pass).
Before the last load, weighing at Paltuding where sulfur is carried by truck and taken to the factory, must make the POS Bunda for the first load of weight. A supervisor will a stamp that is heavy. The frequency of taking the (sulfur) is moderately load two or four times a day with the weight of 70 to 80 kgs, respectively. "Some are carriers capable of carrying load 100 kgs. But of course they are still young and powerful, not like us, "said Hadi (31), who has worked for 16 years when the salary was still 60 rupees a kilo.
Today gets Rp 600/kg. If the luxury of taking three loads a day with the weight of 70 kg per load, then earn 126,000 rupees a day. It's bigger than being a farmer who earn only 30,000 rupees to 60,000 rupees a day. "It's more than enough to buy a motorcycle credit, "said Hadi. The most difficult area for employees is when they climb the crater rim from the bottom. They have to pass as a steep road that covered with stones. He could barely walk and breathe rapidly with tens of kilograms in his shoulder.
It is a fact that being a charge carrier sulfur is profitable, but just as with their risks and difficulties. Once Jafi, a French tourist expressed his admiration for his ability, which he said was the most interesting thing I had ever seen. The efforts to escape poverty is very touching. They live with courage as if they had a thousand lives.
At each step that make that place their life on the line. It's just for the sake of a better life for the sake of freedom from a string of difficulties.
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