News of Peru’s ‘State of Emergency’ over artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) related pollution in part of the Amazon has received wide-spread public and social-media exposure over the past week. The scale of this pollution is staggering: the impact of ASGM on the environment in the Amazon is scary. Various commentators have asked me how we can prevent a similar state of emergency in Indonesia, where the environmental and health impacts of ASGM are no less concerning