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Editor's Notes

• #1: Hi, I am Surya Ferdian, From Lion Indonesia, an organization focuses on OSH since 2008. I¡¯m choosing this presentation title ¡°Asbestos in developing country¡± because this dilemmatic situation we face in Ban Asbestos in Indonesia
• #2: In Indonesia, we already use asbestos in the first era of our development since 1950. Even though there was a story about our ancestor in Karawang who use asbestos as one of their clothing fabrics. We don¡¯t have any producible asbestos mining in Indonesia so that we import it from other countries. Nowadays we have 27 Factories manufacturing asbestos in difference product. But most of it, 95 percent of asbestos manufactured become Asbestos Roof. In fact, there is more than 9 million house hold (13,77%) still using asbestos roof for their house.
• #3: Asbestos come to Indonesia mostly from Russia, China, Kazakhstan, and Brazil still export 4 thousand metric tonnes to Indonesia in 2022. As you can see main port used to distribute asbestos all over Indonesia was Tanjung Perak (in east part) and Tj, Priok for West part. This is related also with asbestos industry location in Indonesia.
• #4: Basically Indonesia import on asbestos declining. But, the use of asbestos roof looks increasing in trend
• #5: In this picture we can see that west and mid part of Indonesia household use the large source of Asbestoo
• #6: This slides show us where the Industry located. At the background of you can see the Population Density In Indonesia. Asbestos industry located in high density population, produce the roof and others, and distribute them to other location.
• #7: In other hand, Indonesia also import importing product containing asbestos material. As you can see, Jointing, fabricated crocidolite, asbestos cement, from China, Japan, India, Korea as well as from Australia. As same type with when we import Raw, material, that is not specified with HS code existing.
• #8: This is the picture of our challenges. Our government still not ban asbestos because Indonesia need labor absorption. Beside that trade agreement also need to be respected. Eg. Indonesia needs wheat, steel, fertilizer from Russia, and they also meet our Crude Palm oil. This also happened with Japan, and other. In the developing country (third world), typically industry run as low cost and not based on research. Ban asbestos in this typical country means job lost. Our Health Practitioner having less interest in asbestos related disease because we don¡¯t have expert and its technology In the side of labor in developing countries, wages is more important than health. Any technological/machinery changes means joblost Our consumer here need cheap and durable for what its cost. We don¡¯t have enough choices
• #9: From the challenges I mentioned before, so that acceptable that we still struggle to have empirical evidence of the asbestos related disease victims.
• #10: You can see this is advertisement in well-known online market place ¡°Tokopedia¡± they sell asbestos material cheap and free.
• #11: Talking about regulation in Indonesia concerning Asbestos Our government and local government implement Non hazardous material But our industries still get facilities to import asbestos (chrysotile) with 0% Duty In the field of labour there are still ¡°asbestos safety use¡± regulation This is also happen with our regulation concerning dust threshold In the field of health practicioner we have guideline regarding OSH But not specific in Asbestos (that still in working by Perdoki) Last but not least, we have consumer protection law that make customer bureaucratically follow the rules to complaint There is no regulation straightly mentioned Ban Asbestos
• #12: From above situation and what we learned from our activity. It is clear that BAN Asbestos movement in Indonesia still need 3 dimension of work Strenghten grassroots Literacy to increase knowledge and skills And The importance of policy advocacy
• #13: For those movement, we need collaboration from all parts of society
• #14: From our activity in 12 years . From first 5 years our work focuses on finding empirical evidence
• #15: We did also organizing grassroot and initiating Victim organization
• #16: We make also many seminars along with university as well as labor and other parties.
• #17: Slow but sure we also encourage media coverage.
• #18: We also did many effort to make international solidarity
• #19: In the field of health practice we proud achieved with our collaborative action with Perdoki
• #20: From the first empirical evidence and get 1 compensation we grow to 6 evidence
• #21: In 2020 there was 1 other publication concerning asbestos related disease happened to lecturer who use asbestos roof
• #22: In 2022 there was 1 other publication concerning asbestos related disease happened to ex construction owner
• #24: What we will do next in knowledge and resource center are this
• #25: What we will do next in public policy are this
• #26: We still improving our activity in grassroot and worker organizing