Indonesia a power dies island. The tools over a 1000000 to is to you get the nice that smoke, honey kills is a Hidden Treasure gold. And thats why the island has one of the densest populations of gold miners in indonesia. Southeast asia is biggest go to produce. But this industry is fueled by a deadly vineyard for dotius mercury. Net. But we want to get the goal one group of medical they could kill and make you a health problem. Some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of my mind and my answer talks and is spreading for them to say about a good idea. And that this is the level at which you have to evacuate out quasi luxury is how youre fully regulated. Most the installer, goals, mining industry, how did this make sure we get here . And why is it being used . You to do that i have to be very careful, very distrusting of john is not like any other body. We must constantly one the public about the risk. The n g is working in and around secretary of an area consisting of 3 small villages has counted nearly 50 children, born with new, logical, and physical best defects since 2018 minus gotta step. And then whats your name . Erica, the youre new here here. Yeah, for them. But i find that ill just say me today for these children are being examined by a concern to the cold up to the down. Now started the seizures, and now hes constantly drooling where hes worried. There may be a common spread time that conditions together and then some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of im. Im very concerned because i also have a young child and god bless. And we all know that mercury poisoning has terrible repercussions, and there is no cure then in the air. How many were you exposed to lots of mercury before she was born . That i meant clear . Yes. E. And what does the season started when she was one lady down the going from nevada. Shes also data wash off now. Shes at the plus why im worried about not carry somebody because he here last about the fact that the medical people off by get the exposure to mercury controls. It was a simple and even faithful. How this is well documented was previous. Major disasters serving is stuck reminders of the risks it poses. This child of 6 is an even more severe case. She is incapable of expressing herself and barely reacts to light. Naturally, poisoning was once tied to college and to ration and manufacturing. However, by the 21st century, most industries adopted alternative met to a free production methods. Then a new danger in much is your husband a gold minor . Yes, yes. The story of informal goals, mining and loan book, started around 15 years ago when locals spoke, shes an opportunity, a Large Mining Company found and floods deposits in lumber. Local. People started to think about, oh, if there is gold for large scale for r o b, we can get the small scale one. So they thought they could get, you know, the crumbs from the big guys just hadnt even been in full mining, took off, eventually producing more gold than corporate mining companies. Up until now the gold mining activities, especially the small scale illegal, illegal and elicit normally secretary about that was today. 19, a has agreed to share his story. And im gonna say a bottle of a 95 by a lie of the long. Well, my name is spelled to them by indigo. I was born in rome law. Right . Yeah. So ill go to, yeah. Yeah. And i did a lot of people go to work and the fresh air was efficient. And my goal is to do this how to load and off because it knows what it is. So lets of the fellows i chose to become a millionaire. Really because like it doesnt have to be here to the little but i thought this, i thought i thought i have to pam i quickly before i leave the house because look like stuff out of my minding tools invalid. Yeah. This to a data trip then take 2 hours, right down to the its getting late to such a hurry to pull out of that as i, uh, my whole family and some including my own clothes and other relatives. I have real gold miners just like me. My new the i the pin number the that last and i feel a sense of joy when i get to the present on the follow the sound big scene. Yeah. The yeah. The people i work with. So im like, my brothers soul dannetta the fall out. So i do, laurie west, thats not true. I was the i the, the, an estimated 22000 people in lumber depend on small scale gold mining to earn a living excavation for terry a see from the Steep Mountain side. Its not hold on and its personal mine, but he doesnt do with that. The, its currently is a 16 meters. The is naturally whole frame and muscular bills provide him with a particular advantage. When descending into the depths, the loss of little muscle, we need to prioritize our safety. Im gonna go down the hall and i do the the, the work is extremely dangerous. Low oxygen level of intense heat falling wilks flash drugs and gas leaks when that total tools are a few of the risks. Only recently i taught them and blocks out due to a lack of oxygen along. Good us, im just fine. I have, my god, im standing by my colleagues thought i was that i, you know what i mean, they get to go ahead and add the a funny. But i guess well do is pull the color of this rock is white. Thats good. The problem. And then there are holes of greens and yellows, and it has black veins. Youve got 9 to work standing very good. But the real danger begins with so hold on and we tend to know he was processed the or to extract a gold and met to a is a key component. Yeah. And then the finally get home by the pound, the, or from the bouncing into smaller pieces. Is that the, the, that the little the did the rocks are placed in a bowl mail where they are combined with wakes and hundreds of pieces of water. Gradually they breaks down into settlement as i possessed mercury and the bowman to collect the call to see that im done. I mean it is pulled into the bowl middle to bind with a go the mouth to a is then burned away, leaving behind fuel gold. And poisonous fumes. Finally, the toxic waste whole time is discard age into the environment. The socket hospital officials came to my house to explain the risk to mercury to us. But theres nothing i can do. We dont know how to process the order without using good you right . By the fucking i found all i know i so being that the merger is the next really has or does metal the can have severe consequences on human health and the environment. It can cause minimize the disease, which is a serious condition leading coma or relative depth. Then can also cause new or logical disorders, especially children. It can cross the human flush center leading to the birth defects and other logical problems globally 20 percent to the annual go production comes from informal miners like federal ron in indonesia. Moco may be produced like this, that informal mining operations. To complicate matches, the minus pulling mills often located the local move to filters. The contaminated waste water then finds its way into drinking wells. Rice patties and the rivers and scenes where people fish, partially open, leafy, and loving labor. But ive accomplished uh something i think i uh, Research Conducted by several universities such as my thought, im university. Sure. The mercury is present in festivals and fruits and other Food Production and lumber are falling into. Thats where you wanna move to find them. Yeah. So if anything to the new matter, we get to know the name and get it comes with toxicity of the mercury. Doesnt just cause problems where the miners work. It also spreads to other places may i put in with. And i knew that some of that may be something that i brought up and, but then i and but thats not who, naturally, which is the edge of the go tendency to be an accumulates in the air until one day. Some way. It falls as toxic rain the news, wherever the wind takes in my mind. Yeah. Yeah, mm hm. I cant escape it. Nothing happened. Data naturally does not break down in the environment to move it used to move is accumulates, building up in the food chain. The today, federal rahman is a happy the us, you know, im saying is a tape. I think its about off a graph thats was around 300000. 00 group at them. But i, science, i have the data from through that smells and twice the amount in daily is efficient. But it will cost will this come to his family, neighbors, and community . This is the only metal, this is liquid room temperature. Makes it with cold and watch a mesmerizing ritual funding on for the 1st and part of china is sold to have died off to consuming mandatory in his pursuit as a multitude. He was not the last abraham lincoln, the pirates, king black beard and isaac, new old as the to us, suffered from that to be poisoning in the 20th century map. Here we continue to be used in medicines, lightbulbs. The moment for this cause metrics move within the 1950s a much a leak as a factory in the seaside town. As many montage upon killed moles and 900 people and left thousands permanently disabled. Here is another child whose father died. Minimize the disease, her limbs are deformed, that is also let to title regulations around the world. By 2013 a global treaty, the minimum conventional met to a was born. Today, 99. 00 countries including indonesia, have ratified the convention, mandating them to protect the citizens from the dangers of this deadly metal. Yet, this trench continues the level as a result of gold mining. Not sure to use headstrom, the key increased and that is a size and a complication. Sort of the now the form of this i meant the difficulties diagnosing, not to worry poisoning, is that the symptoms of similar to those of other diseases. Medically, a full battery binds to another exception of the symptoms that appear very similar to those of many in your logical disorders lane. Thats how they get a number of tests on needed to ensure the symptoms are really due to mercury poisoning with the any other net and use of previously collected samples in long bulk. But the efforts will not extend concerned with his active action today. Doctor is leading a team to conduct bio mancha testing. Thats the community. What the assessing . Yeah. Uh nice problem. Concerns is sold. We have to find out just how big the problem is. First on that list, especially rahman and his stomach. He said. Debra fat viani d. Hello sir. My name is dr. De la. My areas of ation is a mining hot spot and just in my center we want to monitor Peoples Health and the impact of the matcher. Rico gun we would like to test you, your wife and our child is to be on the physical and cognitive test to carry it out. Did you take these signs of poisoning done through the life of the phone or mine . Is it less . Right . I dont. Why the because dont have to change. If i looks like it is starting to whiten up on my new, out of my move to here. From the case of metal units. The word tingling sensation maybe thats and i guess sometimes it does sound like how long does the child been doing uncontrollably again, sometimes the last 2 or 3 days then the team takes half and now samples yeah. Ill give you that, as i told you, that you can release to been examined by the daughters a lot of shots to do that and ill get the Investigation Continues with a search from that to me in the in the last moment. This is a new mix, portable mercury analyzer that did me or not. This device allows us to measure the mercury in the air at a specific location. In the past week, the analyzer generates results immediately a reading about 1000 is considered unsafe. Some of if it could be going for the kind of a, heres the results of what 8657. 00. The funding across the medical and mercury concentration in the area around this ball mill is between a 110000. 00 planograms per cubic meter. Is in it, the 1210000 is the number of where you have to evacuate. How does yep. If i dont see this, i am not based on these results. I feel that mr. Fucking ramon in his familys health are in danger. Yes. You know, its hopefully taking the back if he could reach 10000 with uh, our initial finding indicate that to them um, as hell sessions. So, but thats the number of the exam to show that the coordination of the left and right this many times im, im about and im with them from his ability to coordinate fine motor skills is full, so slow up and the average person thats it. That is all man uh we can see there are already some issues. Some about a dozen one mamma, but the tests may have come too late for 5 around and some possible while im on the bus went well. Once i got on the line, the best loans as to how to do it a lot, but they lights off at home and yeah, i realized he didnt want to sell side that as i kept him home today, i dont mean that bundle on or but i think i hope to talk to right away. So helping a young people adults took a biopsy to investigate the issue. The problem, was it this in test or something . Yeah, they were not functioning properly. Yeah. Might be so they get that their mind due to his deformed and test gains. Federal governments child isnt able to move his spouse. Instead, the excrement needs to be sent out through a tube on a daily basis. He is out on pennbrook a and you get that. Yeah, the doctor told me how to treat as i can only myself. My wife can carry on a procedure. I know a lot by the unable. Yeah. And yes, but this can only be a temporary fix. The, again, any that im interested in is exposed to mercury via the time of a little behind the babys, susceptible to molecular and genetic changes where instead of getting it big. Yeah, that can lead to an amount of t as the organs phone. But im going to get a little behind on all of them. But the bottom of the bottom, i scanned that research and said he needs to be operated on the same time. But i dont have the money because i dont have insurance costs around 30000000 group us. But its um, you know, those are the types that kind of money and the fees trials, illness is less defensive, around the, in the enviable position of having to mine more to be able to pay for the surgery. Over the next 2 days, the team collects half a nail cuttings from 9 more individuals. It will take a month for the samples to be analyzed in a lab. The usually get you news cups. Youd be a star. If you did pass the results might provide on some of those testing number. It is just a microcosm. The 4th remains a wide spectral across much to the denisia. In wishing to set the data alone, probably 1000. 00 tons a year. 1000. 00 tons of memory. One drop of memory can kill and, and make you make your health problem. But were talking about 1000 ton grams up here and all over indonesia, 3500 tons the, the, the Health Issues faced by central rom annuities. Finding a new, unique to them, but in many countries across the doing informal mind is also using metrics to extract in asia. The problem is to, to the most run point in indonesia where theyre over 850. 00 small scale mining hotspots across the country. The nobody knows exactly how much mercury is being used. Estimates vary wildly from 300 tons to over 3500. Was use know, is it that or at least 300000 minus, using met to in indonesia. Each of them uses up to 20 parts, met to me every possible goal. Because this is a problem to the indonesian government who has committed internationally to deal with mercury f 115. And im, i thought you submitted a mazda convention is a Binding International agreements. And in the countries that aims to protect human is on the environment from the dangers of mercury by m equity in the set and denise jo ratified the minimize a convention with a 2017 loan now and its own ready. According to the National Action plan, indonesia has committed to eliminating the use of victory by 2020. The following. I met with some with the National Action plan includes policies like the adoption of alternative technologies for both processing and the tougher enforcement flows is also recommend that the production of met. So we should be still. This starts with the presentation as a mining of an old, cold cinema which mercury is made from the there are a couple of things that can be done to stop for all this problem created by mercury and indonesia. So 1st is to stop the extraction or mining of single bar including the smelting and the process to produce mercury from the or and the 2nd is prohibitive. The cell trade of mercury, including exportation mining and were finding signal in indonesia is not against the little if you have autonomy. But the government does not issued any time its making it de facto illegal. Regardless, a see question and then list it Domestic Production and supply chain from that to a is still possibly a todays price, 3500 tons of mercury could be was over 370000000 us dollars. The where did the scene of our or come from colors, according to my information, to send a volcano from setup island into the most. And im going to be able to do that. And indonesia, you have to have a backup. So you will be able to continue the business and activities without any disturbance. So this high rank of the shows could be police, military or a government official. And we heard from morris and i like to tell stories from people underground that there are some important people picking up their businesses. We contacted the administrative environment and forestry. It was used to comment on the list, which meant to be trade. Ringback one of the largest in about mines in indonesia is allegedly on sarah island in my little crew products. And despite its illegal nature, it can be seen from space. The satellite pictures taken in august 2022 of the blue tens tides the mining activity of machinery does allow mine is to excavate. To send about old local journalists, trying to expose this illegal activity. The says im going to the mountain to find this in about my new number. So yeah, my name is really slow. Yeah. The im a journalist, you know, not lease custodians. I am in my, my daily reporting. So comes primarily the environment on an Indigenous People in my life. So i know its not like you must have had that the model good on my local data that i want to document the mining activities and become independent so, so they get on the muscle because i love them, get them up. Its very difficult to get in, like i have to be very careful because i love the very distrusting of journalists because they can expose the information to the public. This illegal mining still exist as somebody like telling me much. Ive done this long try to get protection from the village head whether mine is situated, but failed. Whats the media to expose your mind . To tools for several minds that he knew opened up about people who receive bribes, calling you to get somebody to buy. Thats widely believed by Police Officers are involved who i think the best example at that 30, but then practically shot felt responsible in person can phone decentralized imagery, the film, the following of his move out of food. And i found the minus 10 top here in the middle of the mountains near about 1000 meters above sea level. So to begin out sick today, do you think lots of tents been set up of look