In Aceh, oyster hunting is mostly carried out by women, by sitting or squatting inside the estuary water. The job is carried out every day for many years, with an average duration of two until three hours/day. During this activity, the female genital organ is an open cavity which is an entry point of substances into the body. The residential drainage channels in Banda Aceh City, consists of Alue Naga and Krueng Tibang Rivers Furthermore, the water quality of the Krueng Cut river is in class III, and it contains coliform bacteria, fecal coliform, and streptococcus fecal bacteria. However, the oysters extracted contain lead, cadmium, and zinc, which are above the safety level. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of age, and duration of work using vaginal douches on pap smear result test in woman oyster seekers. The research subjects comprised of 60 respondents, which was obtained by purposive random sampling. The result showed that 75% of the respondents in abnormal category (PAP II), had pap smear results. A total of 39 respondents (65%) were in the reproductive age, with 35 (58.3%) of them having worked for more than five years, while 25 (41.7%) did not utilize the vaginal douching after work. Furthermore, it influences the age of Pap smear results (p-value=0.00), the length of work affecting the pap smear result test (p-value=0.00), and the vaginal douching that influences the pap smear results (p-value=0.001). Logistic regression analysis showed that the most influential variable on Pap smear results was the length of work (p-value=0.005) and vaginal douching utilized (p-value=0.002), with its results not affecting by age.

The concentration of arsenic in water, sediment, and resident hair in the Ie Seu’um geothermal manifestation area has been analyzed using the Atomic Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (GF-AAS) method. Sediment and hair samples were prepared by wet digestion using an acid solution. The measurement results were validated by linearity, Limit of Detection (LoD), Limit of Quantification (LoQ), Relative Standard Deviation (%RSD), and %Recovery. The validation test showed that this method is very linear, sensitive, accurate, and precise with a correlation coefficient of 0.9999, LoD of 0.009 μg/L, LoQ of 0.027 μg/L, recovery values of 89.117–101.027% for hair samples and 88.337–105.175% for sediment samples, and RSD of 1.067%. The sample test results showed that the hot springs contained the highest arsenic with levels of 166.73 ± 0.0081 μg/L (IS1). In comparison, the water samples with the lowest arsenic levels were in the rivers that had not been in direct contact with the hot water (IS2) flow, which is 0.80 ± 0.0036 μg/L. All the river water samples that had been in contact with hot water were boreholes, and the resident boreholes located around hot water streams/rivers contaminated with arsenic were above the threshold. Only the river water that had not been in contact with hot water, refill water, and borehole waters outside the hot water flow were detected to be below the threshold level. All the sediment samples showed arsenic contamination, with levels ranging from 2.56–6.86 mg/kg, and it was still within the normal limits recommended by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Arsenic exposures in communities living around the Ie Seu’um geothermal area, Mesjid Raya Sub-District, Aceh Besar District, Aceh Province, were very high, where 9 out of 10 respondents were positive for arsenic with levels ranging from 54.59–164.57 mg/kg, which was already above the threshold set by the researchers.