KAWAH IJEN
In Indonesia on the island of Java, every day, dozens of miners climb the Kawah Ijen volcano to access the sulfur mines and pocket a few rupees.
On days and nights, they come to the bottom of the crater to deposit twice a day loads of 75 to 80 kg of sulfur, carried on the shoulder in woven bamboo baskets.
Generally evolving without any protection: the wealthiest have a respirator in poor condition, glasses and boots, the others a simple fabric on the nose and flip flops.
Being here when maybe we shouldn’t have my mind filled with strange sensations. A place increasingly known and publicized, I carefully avoided the flow of organized group circuits in order to best testify to their working conditions.
