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the order-at Pak [[Saidi's?]] house, however, the finishing workers work all year round
- raw materials used and their sources:
1. black&tan coarse bamboo strips - a small amount of bamboo from own village, rest from neighboring villages-cut into strips at Moyudan
2. fine split bamboo (1/10" width) - purchased by the kilo from above- mentioned government factory
3. gebang palm strips for lashings - purchased from village of Sentolo where the ground soggy enough to grow gelang
4. rattan - bought in the market (?) in Jogja
5. carved black bamboo lamp bases - carved in Jogja (Tukangan kampong, near Malioboro - whether these are purchased by Pa Saidi, or someone else owns them and sends them to Pak Saidi to be fitted with shades not determined
- no information on prices of raw materials

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- bakuls not used ((not so)) in this village ((aside: is this also true for traditional basketry?)); Pak Saidi works on a job order basis, feeling the risk of accumulating inventory to be too high ("What if we make things and make things and later nobody wants to buy.")
- stocks low at the time of this visit
- 2 credit sources reported:
1. loans from Bank Rakyat Indonesia
2. advances from buyers like Ibu K. (Ibu K. says a 50% advance is usual, though she often gives less)
- following prosperity indicators noted:
1. vehicles - many of the houses had bicylces and new motorcycles, but larger vehicles ie cars and trucks not seen
2. Houses were mainly tembok (plastered brick) with perhaps a few walls in the kitchen + bathroom areas of woven bamboo; Ibu K. says this is new and when she first began coming to the village in 1973 the houses were still made entirely of bamboo (rumah gedik)
3. furnishing in Pak Saidi's house