About
Indonesia is a country of 17508 islands with over a quarter of a billion inhabitants. This in itself causes a lot of problems. If we add to this the mining and burning of coal, the clearing and burning of the rainforest, the artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) and the import of waste, the degradation of the environment is one of the biggest problems of this populous country. In addition, it is difficult for the island state to control the import of waste and raw materials, including the toxic mercury for gold mining.
Arnika helps local civil society organizations to map the level of environmental pollution by toxic substances and its effects on the health of local people. In 2012, we started with analyses of mercury around ASGM sites. Since 2018, we have been investigating pollution, especially in the vicinity of places affected by the uncontrolled import of plastic waste from around the world on the island of Java. We can do all this mainly thanks to the support of the international network IPEN.
News
14.11.2019
GOTHENBURG / JAKARTA / PRAGUE
Highly toxic chemicals, posing dire risks to human health, have been found in dangerous concentrations in free-range chicken eggs in Indonesian communities…
01.05.2019
GENEVA
At the Stockholm Convention, Arnika is presenting the results of recent analyses of chicken eggs from 29 countries concerning the presence of dioxins and…
24.03.2014
KUALA LUMPUR (MALAYSIA)
The majority of household paints analyzed in seven Asian countries contain unsafe levels of lead; would not meet regulatory standards established in most highly…
09.01.2013
USA / Czech Republic
Today, an international network of non-governmental organisations, IPEN, published a study which focuses upon the contamination of certain regions of our…
03.01.2013
DENPASAR/PRAHA
People living close to small-scale gold mines in Indonesia have their bodies heavily burdened with the mercury, as confirmed the levels of mercury in the human…
17.07.2012
BANGKOK
The global project Eliminate Lead in Paint has been launched in Bangkok during a meeting of non-governmental organizations from seven Asian countries and the…
Publications
16.12.2019
Jindřich Petrlík
This study summarizes findings of an international team of researchers about Tropodo and Bangun, two sites in Indonesia where imported plastic wastes are…
11.04.2017
Arnika / IPEN
This report evaluates chemical analyses of toys and plastic products from 26 countries worldwide and calls for stricter limits on the content of brominated…
09.01.2013
Jindřich Petrlík
New Evidence Reveals Mercury Contamination Regularly Exceeds Health Advisory Levels in Humans and Fish Worldwide
03.01.2013
Jindřich Petrlík
This report focuses on two sites of Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Poboya and Sekotong, Indonesia.