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July 26: stopover in a small GEPLAK candy factory in Bantul
household enterprise, begun by the grandmother in 1921, during the Dutch period
uses only family labor, perhaps 10 persons
large family yard but no adjoining sawah (non-village)
the first geplak factor in Bantul, though a number of imitators have by now sprung up along the same road (just outside the entrance to the Kebupaten complex)
[[label]]
Shape: ellipse 
Colors: Dark Blue field. Yellow outlining,illustration, and lettering.
GEPLAK ASLI
illustration of a rectangular, double layer  basket
BU PAWIRODINOMO
UTARA TANGSI
BANTUL
YOGYAKARTA
[[/label]]
ingredients for making the candy are: 1. coconut 2. sugar 3. vanilla, prambus or durien essence 4. food colouring 5. rice flour

process: 1. scrape and grate coconut 2. mix coconut and sugar in a kwali pot 3. cook over the fire, stirring 4. add color and essence 5. remove from fire and form by hand into small balls 

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6. dust with rice flour to prevent sticking

equipment: 1. kwali pots, 2. long handled spoons for stirring over fire, 3. flat-bladed knife for scraping coconut. 4. tampah (round flat trays of woven bamboo) for dusting with flour 5. fire pit, on top of which sits the kwali 6. electric grater (see below)
fuel: 1. coconut husks, burned in the fire pit - apparently give a hotter heat than wood 
2. electricity - the electric grater purchased in 1971, uses 500 watts of electricity

prior to purchase of electric grater, grating done by hand; must pay government tax of Rp 2100 per month (US$5) on the electric grater
factory inspected by the Kabupaten once a month

for one batch use 10 coconuts and 5 kilos of sugar - make