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Training Dynamics
only used to catch phone network and therefore allows a laptop to send and receive an
SMS.
Figure 12. Paddy fields rely only on underground water as springs and rivers Figure 13. A farmer sub-contracted his backyard mixed-crops
By providing this training , we hope the participants can engage in deep and meaningful are blocked by mining companies garden to be dug for gold
discussion in identifying health risk impacts which will then to be used in designing their
health campaign posters. We will then use these information to help us in our Prevalence of Water Borne Diseases: 1) Sediment Contamination;
ethnographic research fieldwork . 2) Mercury Contamination
Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge supports that the following institutions in
Methodology Figure 4. Frontline SMS Training Participants from Bombana District
Health Department and Environmental Management Agency
Figure 5. Trainees Designing Health Impacts Monitoring Program by
Using Auto Reply Function of FrontlineSMS Application
making this research and presentation possible:
• Indonesian Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP)
• Australian National University (ANU)
Step 1: In-Training Observation • International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC)
• Purpose: Identifying themes of risks and impacts of ASGM
• AusAID – Government Partnership for Development (GPFD)
• Identify and select representatives of seven villages affected by the impacts of gold
Figure 14. Workers in a Gold Mining Pit, Digging, Hosing and Sucking Figure 15. A Drum Mill Machine used to amalgamate gold flecks with
mining, along with staff of community health centers at sub-district, and technical staff Gold Bearing Materials into a Sluice Box mercury
of district health department and district environmental management agency.
• Train participants on the use of FrontlineSMS Application (for detail please visit:
http://www.frontlinesms.com/).
• Ask participants to discuss and evaluate mining-related risks, and used these as
themes to be used in designing an awareness campaign program using the program. Figure 6. Frontline SMS Training Participants from Sub-District Figure 7. Presentation of a Health Campaign Poster by a trainee, while
Community Health Centers and Village Health Posts others are testing it by sending SMS to broadband stick’s mobile number
Figure 16. Waste Water from a Drum Mill Being Dumped Straight into the Figure 17. A Mill Worker Sift Gold Amalgam from Drum by Using Bare
Small Creek Near by it Hand
Figure 8. Frontline SMS Training Participants from Village Staff and Figure 9. Enthusiasm of Village Staffs and Representatives in Discussing
Representatives Health Risks and Impacts from Gold Mining that matter to them.
• During fieldwork, we also validated information regarding risks of gold mining people of other purposes, e.g. communication between village head and staff, smoking
conveyed in training with the real situation. risks campaign and political campaign towards village head election. Figure 19. A Man in Wumbubangka Village Showing His Skin Rash
which He Claimed to Pick Up from Mining Pit Water