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-loans from Bank Rakyat
-many producers who don't get bank loans must borrow from Chinese (warehouse owners) + then must sell crop to the Chinese with a lower than market price
-loans used to pay labor costs + costs of feeding labor
-technical personnel [[crossed out]] in Rembang go to the field 2 or 3 times a week, rest of time spent on adm. + reports;
-garam rakyat found in 6 kec.'s, most in kec. Kaliuri (4 desas)
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-Pak Mulyono also discussed gamping industry in kec. Pamotan, (4 desas);
-in kec. Rembang a bamboo industry (4  desas)
-fish anying ind. all along coast + employs 1400 people;
-fish sold to Kudus + Bandung; also tengkudaks who come to the village to buy

COPPER 79
-one also ikan teri from the area, but seasonal
-also a lot of batik in Rembang
2 next visited
copper industry at desa Sumbegirang, Kec. Lasem (Pak Jupri)
work place called a pirapen or besalen
copper from Surabaya + consists of serap such as old dynamos
-1 K. for 450 Rp 

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Nov 80
1000 Rp a kilo
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6 pengrajin
make dandang, kenceng (cooking point, ceret, pengaron)
[[three small images of pots]]

makes more dandang than anything
-tools: hammers, shears scissors, supit (tongs), paron (anvil), kowi (molds), bellows of hide
-kowi made of earth mined with ripe chaff
-they prefer the strong blast of a hide bellows ("apiharus dikagetkan")
Pak Supri goes to Surabaya himself to get the copper
-best season for his products is the harvest season