All living things are destined to die. However, in the industrial area of the nickel mines at PT Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP) and PT Weda Bay Nickel (WBN), many deaths come far too soon. Most of the victims are workers still in the early stages of their productive years, with dreams and hopes that should have stretched far ahead of them. There are three types of death that greet them too early: karoshi (death from overwork), suicide, and workplace accidents. These three occur repeatedly, signaling a systemic occupational health and safety (OHS) problem in the mining industrial area that has become chronically severe.
This report once again highlights the most alarming consequences of poor working conditions in one of Indonesia’s largest nickel industrial zones, PT IWIP. We hope this report will encourage further, more in-depth and comprehensive research to uncover working conditions across other nickel industrial centers in Indonesia.
Read the full report in English here: Three Faces of Death in Weda Bay
