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oil and "fried" in hot sand without oil
sand krupuk called "krupuk tayamum," tayamum being a way Arabs have of washing w/ sand before praying if no water around
- some krupuk are sold to bakuls who come around, others the makers sell themselves in the pasar
- each producer sells, on a lave,30-40k per day
- market near Ngaluran at which most of krupuk sold is a Pasar Paing dan Khwon
- uncooked krupuk taken to sell as far as E. Java (Bojonegoro, Tuban, Lamongan)
 - is a fellow who sells 1 colt load to Jrdgung each every. ((Jragung the village we visit this morning))
-most of the sellers women- termed selling "eceyan" ie selling retail in small amts
-for frying 1 pileal wood 600 Rp or 5 liters kerosen 27 1/12 Rp
-for longer distance selling done by men
men do frying
-one person related that some people become penqusaha because

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have a lot of capital & can start a business and hire burah without learning to make
- others became burah 1st & save capital to start a small business from their burah wages
-before 1967 residents of the village were farmers and bakul
-now ag. merosot because 1. wereng beginning in 1975 and 2. profits in krupuk
((in fact was never a very profitable area for ag))
- got only a small % of harvest this year - most lost
- in their opinion " karenauang untuk petanian rugi terus, lebih bail untuk krupuk"
- no coop - acc. to them " krupuk sulit dikooperi, sebab dapat berdini sendiris - muda beli baham sendiri"
- no overproduction, can easily sell all they make
- they need more labor, but skilled labor hard to find
- work from 3AM until noon, rest briefly, then work again till 4:00PM; reason for starting work so early is so krupuk ready for drying

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