Mining bloated stone or commonly called white brick, in the village of Blumbungan, Larangan District, Pamekasan Regency, East Java has been under the encounter since the Dutch colonial era. The type of hard deposit soil or is known as sedimentary stone term of limestone or dolomite slabs is similar to rocks, but it is not as hard as stone in general, it is more equal to the red brick made of clay.
From time to time, the digging of bricks for the building material, the wall shape of the building relics of the past or resembles a curtain and goa-goa with a depth of up to 50 meters from the ground surface. For some people, the former galian is a beautiful scenery, but it is behind the beauty it is precisely the danger of the congregation always lurries and surrounding settlements.
However, the danger is sometimes for workers although the victims are convicted to the gallian often occur. They only think to acquire a white brick bongan size 70x20 cm as much as, for the reward of Rp1.000 per rod.
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The miners are also threatened from the mine wall, as to reach the location of the height with the slope of more than 90 degrees, they must go through the bamboo ladder along 20 meters and the string thread.
Although dangerous, the mining remains because there are about 621 people hang their lives on an area of 85 hectares scattered in nine districts in the district. In fact, they fight life for life.
Text and photos by : Saiful Bahri
