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Blawan coffee plantation
Working at the coffee plantation Blawan and Kalisat
Before the coffee plantation became a plantation, wild land had to be cleared. Originally the Ijen Plateau was uninhabited. The administrators chartered people from the northern lowlands; attracting Madurese.
The Sulphur miner
Manual work in the sulphur factory for Rp. 110,000 per day
Although work in the factory is heavy as well, people prefer to produce sulphur in the factory instead of carrying it out of the volcano. 'I am closer to my family', is their explanation.