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inspecting products from the village at a trade fair c. children from the village who do the piece work dressed up and talking to the Minister of Industry (?), etc. 
Pak Saidi's own vocabulary sprinkled with such English terms as "finishing", "job order", "credit" (kredit), etc. 
at the same time brought into the conversation such Javanese terms as "gotong royong" and "rukun" to illustrate his feelings that the people in the village should work together to keep prices up, share orders which are too large for one household to fill, etc. - was apparently distressed when, during a walk around the village we bought two rings of small traditional basket from a housewife 150k a ring or 15Rp per basket; Pak Saidi felt this was too low and noted that when villagers need money they sell too low; also that if there were a large job order for such an item, they wouldn't agree to make the same baskets for such a low price
a problem he also noted is getting
 
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villagers to produce for a deadline (Ibu K. noted that one reason buyers like to work through Pak Saidi is that he always observes deadlines while other pengrajin are often careless about deadlines).
-impossible to evaluate the quality of the relationship between Pak Saidi & the other households based on this one session - do they accept him as their spokesman and let him handle all the relations with outsiders, or do they attempt to make deals on their own?
-no estimate of hours per product
-production apparently subject to seasonality since Pak Saidi noted that most of the work is done during the slow agricultural periods- (he mentioned 1 1/2 months during the rainy season 1 1/2 months during the dry, and another month during the fasting period before Lebaran (bulan puasa) - when accepting a large order he must take the agricultural cycle into account; if the buyer asks for a deadline which can't be met because villagers are busy in the fields, he refuses