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highest earnings by tukang potorg - I potorg stel 10Rp and can cut 3 bolts a day @ 50 stel = 1500Rp all the tukang potong are males 
- tukang itik 2 and kaneing "who are already fast" only earn about 200Rp per day
most buruh get 1 meal per day
- usual work hours 7-4
- if market slow often have to stop production 
best market May - Aug
Jan - March are paceklik months
- konfeksi is the pekerjaan pokok because the pengrajih have no sawah - beginning in 1975 all sawah taken up by houses (gedung 2)
industry began spreading 1968 because began getting orders from more distant markers ie Surabaya, Sumatra + Arilon
- konfeksi made is pasas quality + most sold thru pasas lakuls
- new designs for clothes from models shown by lakuls (contoh) - sometimes make own designs
- are also markets at hase, Jepana, Magelang, Ambanowo.
- usual method of payment is 75% when clothes sold (i.e. a few days after setoring) + 25% at Lebaran
((acc. to Edy whose father is in konfelesi business once clothes ddisiton tdak lisa dikem balikan - elsewhere the 25% at Lib because a lot of money then))
- defaults on the 25%, the say, do occasionally happen but rare (none this year)
- prices are fixes w/ langganans
- if laris season, buyers come to the village to find goods
- mesins : jahit, obras, not sum
- about 5 large peng along the main road have electricity + can use electr. machines - rest foot pedel on type you sit on a board to turn (?)
- every peng. has at least one mesin, but may rent 2 ir 3 more
- acc. to them if get knedit + can produce more can easily look for new langganans
- if a project peralatan, need the 3 machines mentioned above (no more electr. for cutter))
- fashions change ("desin ada