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80 at Pocung produce wayang kulit plus few other perforated leather goods such as lampshades, fans, etc; village lies in teh valley at the base of Imogiri & is somewhat more fertile than the uplands (sawah growing) (half of the village in the valley, half on the hillside) --[[bracketed]] insert that according to Wahyono of Museum Sono Budoyo this was formerly a backstrap weaving village -- are still some houses doing weaving, but we had no opportunity to visit [[/bracketed]] as at Gendeng the wayang industry begun by a person who was trained at the kraton & later went home to his village this is the end of the dry season & river bed running through Pocung almost entirely dry visited house of one of the craft leaders of the village, Pak Hardosoewito apparently, a fairly high %age of Pocung's sales are unpainted cuttings which are then sent to Jogja establishments, painted there & then sold under the trade name of the Jogja 81 establishment an example of one such establishment is Mulyodihardjo's at Taman Sari (sebelah barat jamabatan Taman Sari); also number of young boys from Pocung go to work in Jogja establishments directly (this from a Dept. of Ind. official, Keb. Bantul) other [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] than wayang a number of villagers make rough village furniture which is brought to Wonosari, Jogja etc. & sold for a cheap price major village need at this time is an asphalted road -- percentage of direct sales to persons visiting the village must be very low --about 40 households in Pocung [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] [[/strikethrough] said to make wayang; at Pak Hardosoewito's as many as 20(?) workers 4. Samitex textile factory -- fuly automated 250 loom factory with a capitalization of 500 million Rp. Chinese ownership & management