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HADI POLO BL -->

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Pengusaha Penjahitan Indon. " -
they said stopped functioning because the coop selling cloth for same price as merchants
they said they would like another coop if could give cloth cheaper + credit
- at one time cutters can cut 8 to 12 layers of cloth


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second village called Hadi Polo;

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KAB: KUDUS | 
KEC: JEKULO | SUGIONO
KAL: HADI POLO | ADNIM
DUKOH: ARGO PURO | 

a blacksmithing village
ar 87 perapens in the village w/ an average of 4 workers per perapen
  1 empu
  1 ubub - pemubul (jumps down)
  2. penukul

all kikis together afterwards
- Argopuro is really 3 dukohs, Barang Bodro, Bareng Gunung, Bareng Polo with respectively 30, 401 + 15 perapens
are roughly 10 female tukang abubs ((as long as ubub

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doubles as panjak hard to women to find work in this industry))
- Pak Lurah Adnim a very forceful character who insisted at the beginning of own discussions on telling us what problems the industry faces and what they
- problems:
  1. shortage of arang because are regulations from Dept. of Forestry against cutting logs for areng + all jati areng from stolen logs
  2. price of areng variable
  3. use scrap iron + not always available; new iron too expensive (scrap 150 Rp per K, new 300) (rel bekas ie old railroad rails 175 Rp)
  4. tungkulaks who sell their tools often "main harga" + push prices down when they know producers short of cash -- modal is often borrowed from tengkulak secara 'ijon' ie they must mengestor with the tengulak

((ijon from ijo = hijau = green or not ripe; for plants refers to buying cheap when plant on stalk + then

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