Reynold Sumayku
Tangerang, Tangerang City, Banten, Indonesia
Freelance photographer, journalist, writer, editor based in Tangerang and Jakarta (Indonesia). Past work can be seen at https://stories.reynoldsumayku.com
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Daily Life in Raja Ampat Islands
Reynold Sumayku
A mother carrying her infant as she walks to the beach. Friwen Island, Raja Ampat archipelago. West Papua, Indonesia.
Borneo Gold
Reynold Sumayku
In a remote area called Galangan in Kalimantan, illegal small-scale gold minings have take place. There were thousands of workers digging the land in searching for gold in 1980s. Now the number has been decreased to hundreds. The location was a forest, but slowly converted to an empty landscape which can be imagined as a moonscape. People working on the mining site are threatened by the negative impacts of mercury. Rivers are polluted, carrying the mercury down to some bigger settlements and cities. And the welfare is stepping nowhere. | National Geographic magazine-Indonesia, January 2009