Environmental Pollution Knowledge of Small Scale Miners in Bombana Regency Indonesia Muhammadichsan Ali

Poll Res. 37 (ll :5G62 (207E1 Copyright @ EM Intemational ISSN 0257-8050 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION KNOWLEDGE OF SMALL SCALE MINERS IN BOMBANA REGENCY INDONESIA MUHAMMADICHSAN ALI Depattmcnt of Cipil Engineering md Planning, LJniuersitas Negeri Maknssar, Maknssor 90222, lndonesia (Received 12 July, 2017; accepted 2tt April 2011t) ABSTRACT Mining in Bombana Re8ency is a very promising sout.e oI new income for the community. Not only loca.l people but also all Indonesian individuals who knoli, the existence of mining actisities. The pupose of this study is to descdbe the demogtaphic conditions of gender, age, education and previous work and the influence of variables. Questionnaires used as pridary data gathering tools, Random samples used as sampling methods in the population. Of the existing population, 252 used as research spe.imens. In this resear(h, qualitative descriptiye analysis and Pealson correlation with SPSS program used. The results showed that the miner's knowledge of gold processing derived from expedence and interaction in the mining area. The lack of local govemnrenfs rcle after anticipating smell-scale gold miners who do not understand the impact of their activitiee. KEY WORDS: Demographics, Knowledge, Gold Miners INTRODUCTION from landfill tailings and rock waste, not to mention the explosion process that can increase r /ater Traditional gold miners use mercury to capture and salinity. separate gold grains from rock grains. This Hg Identification and control of the environment that precipitate is filtercd usin8 a cloth to get the rest of will cause envtonmental conditions and society to the gold. The filtered sediment then squeezed by be bad. Important aspects of the implementation hand. Water rcmains of minerals containing Hg are process include the dosure of small-sca.le mines ard allowed to flow into the river and irrigated for non-compliant factories regarding environmental agricultural land. Also, mercury components are pollution (Siddiqui et al., 20"12). also widely spread in corals, soil, air, water, and Bombana Regency was formed in 2003 as a result living organisms through complex physical, of the exparsion of Buton Regency and is one of the chemical, and biological processes, Regency located in Southeast Sulawesi Province, Development in this area enhances the real sector Indonesia. At the beginning of September 2008, and to achieve a steady economic development of some people found a lump of gold in the river tahi the nation but on lhe other hand, causes ite and from where the start of minin8 activities. environmental conditions to decline due to the Since that time people began to speculate to be€ome negative impact of the elaboration of the sector (La gold mhers. The high interest of becoming a miner Ode Muhammad Yasir Haya, 2014). has also been Lnown to the public in various parts of Mining activities use a lot of watet although Indonesia and then came to Bombana to become a some are the result of recirculation. Sulfide- miner (Hadi, 20@). containing minerals, due to their contact with air In regulation (Departemen Kesehatan Republik through mining, form sulfide acids in combination Indonesia 2016). (a) Mercury is one of the persistent with the trace element. This condition as a whole has and bioaccumulative chemicals in ecosystems that a negative impact both on surface water altd on negatively impact human health and the groundwater. Water contamination can also come environment; (b) lndonesia is currently identified in *Corresponding authort email: [email protected] ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION KNOWLEDGE OF SMALL SCALE MINERS IN B. REGENCY 57 merory use in the industrial fietd, especially small west and Muna Regency and Buton Regency in the industries that contribute to high mercury east (Statistik, Badan Pusat, 2015). contamination, so it is necessary to reduce and Primary data collected in the form of respondents eliminate mercury in Indonesia. Reduce and conducted on the location of small-scale mining eliminate mercury in Indonesia; it is a need to follow precisely in the Village District Wumbubangka up the implementation of Practices in the Sound North Rorowatu and Rau-Rau Village Rorowatu. Management of Chemicals in 2020. The type of research used is survey research, Among the passages in mining operations, whert where the research collects information from a amalgam smelter mercury will vaporize with high sample by asking through questionnaires or exposure. In mining areas especially in the interviews by usin8 questionnaires to generate a surrounding rnining villages that are not exposed, picture of various aspects of the population from mining activities have adverse effects on public (Fraenkel el nl., 1993). health, especially children (Drasch et al.,2007). This study uses questionnaires as a means of Srnall-scale gold mining activities will contribute collecting primary data provided by the enofinously to the release of mercury to the whole respondents as a sample of the existing population. world and especially to the local, regional Random sampling used as a method of sampling in environment by using mercuric water to extact gold the population then the respondent is a small-scale from the ore (De kcerda and Salomons, 2012). miner active in mining by using mercury materiai in The social and environmental production of mining activities. The pmple of small miners at the suffering is a process shaped by the reciprocal time of this study conducted by 1000 - 1300 workers. interactions amon8 several social and Of ttrc poputation used 252 as a sample of the study. environmental factors. It is well-known worldwide Descriptive research $pically uses larger samples; it that the aggregates and accumulated negative social sometimes suggested that one should select 10-20 and environmertal impacts of gold mining activities percent of the accessible population for the sample leave more sufferint to the local cornmunities than (Singh, 2006). In this rcs€arch, descriptive qualitative to the Bold traders and consumers. Nevertheless, the analysis done by giving a derriptiory condition and forms of human suffering can be at the same time level of knowledge of small-scale mininB collechve and individual; the modes of experience community that uses mercury material as part of in pain and trauma can be both local and globat mining activity and frequency and percentage data (Kleinman et al., 1997). The extractive and mining employed in the discussion. Pearson correlation industry is an important sector and well-known for analysis with SrSS program is used to find out how its associated socio-economic negative impact weak or strong relationship between variables age, (Moody 1991). A massive open-pit gold mine education and previous work to the level of miners' Senerates an average of 76 tons of wastes per ounce knowledge. of Bold (Earthworks, 2007). A tong list of cultural and human right violations, pollution from cyanide RESULTS AND DISCUSSION spills, and endless debates over Submarine Tailing Dsposal associated with large-rale mining (Moody The maior advantage of descriptive statistics is that 2003) (Earthworks, 2007). This study illustrates the it permits a lot of information to describe the fact knowledge of small-scale mining minerals pollution that the median (more about these in a moment). inlluenced by related factors. When such indices calculated for a sample drawn from a population. they are called statistics; When MATERIALS AND METHODS they derived from the rest of the population, they are called parameters. We present the most Research location in Bombana Regency Southeast commonly used teclmiques for summarizing such Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. Bombana Regency is data. Some form of a summary is essential to geographically located south of the equator, interprct data collected on any variable a long list of extending from north to south betwe€n 4'30' - 6' 25' scores, or certain representations are iust South latitude and extending from west to east unmanaBeable (Fraenkel et al., 193). Demographic between 120" 82' - 122' 20' east longitude. Bombana profiles of respondents in this shrdy can see in FiB. 1 Regency is adjacent to Kolaka and Konawe districts to 4. h the north, sea flores in the south, Bone Bay in the 58 MUHAMMAD ICHSAN ALI residence. Younger Itt2.00 age factors are a primary coruideration for a person in immigration. In this study, the maiority of individuals have beerr married and have children more easily take the decision to immigration by looking at the demographic 12.22 70.{x) conditions of the area that will be habitable. glt 00 ilrn WomcD I Frequcrcrg Pcrcclrt (7.) Fig, 1, Cendei Respondents 00 ,tr.go '15 -17.00 -11.00 6.21 7.86 Fig. 1 show sex distribution of rcsponderrts with t{.6E the lrequenry of men amounted to 182 people with a percentage of 72.221", and the rate of women lllincrs Farmcrr PhDtrs Laborera Gmcrn' amounted to 70 individuals with a percentage of I Frequcnrlc! Percent (7.) 27.78%. These results can conclude that the maiority of small-scale gold miners are male, while female FiB. 3. Previous Respondents Iob sex is the majority of wives of male miners. Another observation point is t}lat some miners bring their Fig.3 shows frequency distribution of families, i.e., wife and children, either helpint or iust respondents with the previous iob miners amounted accompanying male miners. to 98 people with percentage 3E.89%, kind of work farmers amounted to 37 people with percentate 14.58%, type of plants work amounted to 31 people I17.00 with percentage 12.30%. Kind of work laborers amounted to 41 individuals with a rate of 16-27% E l.rm and with the type of work grocery amounted to 45 people with a percentage of 77.861". The result 5{ lr0 l.! concluded that the majority of respondents' work { I_{l before becoming small-scale miners works as miners. The work of miners is done to move from one place to another where the location.

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