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(boilers) are paid 12,000 Rp per month
- buruh who make square krupuk are paid 1200 Rp per Q borongan - all male labor - takes 2 days
- for round krupuk made by 5 person teams of 4 women & 1 man - paid 1000 per Q borongan - divided as follows: 150 Rp each woman & 400 for the man
krupuk comes in large, small & med sizes
- if they get credit want to use for buying tapioca - they feel 100,000
- price of tapioca varies per season - if rainy 9-10,000 Rp per Q, 5 - 6,000 dry season ((thus can make good profit in dry season, not in rainy))
-tapioca can be stored up to a year
-are those from the village who speculate in tapioca, but no outsiders
- beram but padi is bought from a slep (place where rice is hulled & polished, place with gilingan padi) - are 4 sleps in kecanatan Gadjah - becambat available all year
50% of penqusaha now use kompor instead
for 1 Q tapioca use 35 liter kerosene @ 27 1/2 Rp
-advantage of kerosene is not that its cheaper than berambut, but that it saves on labor costs - berambut requires 1 person who does nothing all day but shovel it into the fire
- have been using a kompor about 5 years - Pak Komar 1st introduced
- kompor costs about Rp 10,000
- formerly used wood (before used berambut), but wood got too expensive - used wood up to 1970
- tools required are alat cetak, alat campur & wajan (wok)
is not yet a tool, acc. to Pak Komar, which can [?] several at a time (he tried to make one)
- is a type of krupuk which is sliced off but more, not less, work because must be dried twice
- buruh in Ngaluran eat 3 meals a day at pengusahas & usually stay overnight
- about 35% of buruh from other desas ie Mijen, Wonosalam, Denak, Purwodadi
- krupuk began spreading in 67 when Pak Caribe brought teacher from Batang
- 2 ways of cooking: fried in coconut