The Ijen sulfur miners are usually staying in the camp for several days. They work on the mountain for 15 days on average in a month and stay at home for the other 15 days. Among of them have to work longer. They have to stay for 1-2 months in all-limited conditions.

They eat and sleep in the huts that are far from worthy of being called as a camp. The room mingled with ticked smell of sulfur which is closely coupled a fireplace for cooking.  The distance from the mine site makes them have to bring food supply and cook it in the workers’ camp ..

Sleep sharing, bare ragged cardboard and dingy blankets inside a dark booth space, complete their togetherness that emanated meeting in that room cabin. As evening approached, it’s very valuable time to spend outside the hut just because chunks of ‘golden yellow’ has been waiting for them when dawn arrives …

The night is long and windy on that altitude, cold penetrates bone, bellow 15 degree centigrade sometime. There’s nothing much to do, only the faint of insects buzzing in the dimmed evening, getting colder. Serene and silent …