Asia-Pacific Learning Event

Kalimantan is an Indonesian island that has many natural resources such as, coal, gold, oil and gas. Those things become a source of income for people and of course governments – national / regional, district or sub district. Besides Multi National Companies (MNCs), miners also come from communities- Small Skill Mining (SSM). Gold mining activities have been known in the island of Kalimantan since 1850. Formerly they only used simple tools held in their hand without any protection, no gloves or any other covers – artisannal mining. Gold mine is one of the small scale mining activities which have been exploited since 1948. In 1980s, Banjar ethnic introduced a simple technology to extract the land and river in order to find an ore and make it in to a piece of gold. Hence, up to recent time, gold mining is a popular and promising job for many people in most part of Kalimantan These natural resources attract not only the for natives (Dayak, Kutai or Banjar) but also many ethnics from other islands, for example: Bugis, Makassar and Toraja from Island of Sulawesi and ethnic Javanesse, Sundanesse and Madura from Island of