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April 16 with Edy and Sugono. Visit to 2 PDP villages in Kabob's Jepara 

first village a rattan working village called Teluk Witan = E. Teluk

Kab: Jepara
Kec: Welahan
Kal: Teluk Wetan [indention] Lurah: Haji Nur Achmad Sidik
Dukoh: Teluk Wetan 


are 40 K.K. doing rattan in what is otherwise a trad. bamboo-working village
labor per HH about 2-4 persons
-largest enterprises belong to Pak Mahilan dah Suuyoto, up to 10 each "kalan masuk semua"
-of the 40 HH about 15 use some non-family ie wage labor
-types of products: lamp shades, shopping bags, chairs of Hawaii type, kiddie car + bicycle seats + strollers. with colored plastic wrappings
((visted a sales site along main road after disc. session - product quality not very high))
wives + children help with rattan work, whatever is "ringan-ringan" mainly, however, wives occupied with bamboo work 
rattan which is "kurang putih" is cooked with sulfur in a process termed "diopen" (sulfer = beliraing)
-place where sulfur treatments given termed "kulak" - 5 min length
nobody in Teluk Wetan has a kulah
buy their rattan from a certain Pak Hussein in Semarang who has a kulah - address: Bung Lama 27 near the shore 
other sources in Semarang in Karang Ayu area, Toko Asia;+ also Gendngah + Sayangan areas
-is only one store in Jepara which sells rattan _ not much choice + don't carry better grades - prices are same as in Semarang
-small producers usually buy 25 K at a time which lasts about 10 days @ 750 - this is for smaller rattan pieces used to fill in + decorative work large rattan used for main furniture outlines bought by the batang, 200 Rp per 3 M price of smaller rattan only 450 Rp per K last year - they don't know why the price has gone up