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-if price goes up smaller peng must stop producing - one avg 7-10 day a month "prei"

-if get credit hope to overcome this problem

-for wage workers upah is 350 per day w 3 meals 
most of workers young boys

-sometimes chains made borongan + while earnings depend on size + type of goods they calculate
"wang sisa +- 500 Rp a day" i.e. they make a profit of about this after meals

- roughly 40 persons in the village find work as baruh rattan 

-if buy rattan must kontan

- no pedagang rattan in the village 

- most of Sem. rattan sellers are Chinese except Pak Hussein

- most of baruh are from the village 

- rattan workers don't do bamboo + V.V.

- per 25K rattan use 2 1/2 oz. nails costing 100 Rp

- market shopping bags + children's items to Jakarta
sometimes they take the goods to Jak, sometimes someone from Jak picks up chair sets marketed at Purwogondo (sales place along main road) + Kuduo

- for 1 K rattan can produce 5 mid-sized childrens items (called "maiiananak")

- for 1 large chain use 7 batang large rattan + 3K smaller pieces

- types of rattan:
  KUBU
  SUTI
  POTRO
  MANAO

- in Jakarta sell to shops in Pasai Cikini + Pasan Baru

- don't work on orders but make first + then go around to shops trying to sell

- if selor goods to tokos in Jak. can wait up to 15 days for payment ("lakan menantinangry sampai 15 hori") - stay at a pondok owned by Pak Daud in Jati Razamaraun - Pak Daud comes from Teluk Wetan originally

- out of 40 producers are 8 who regularly go to Jakarta; go by bus or trian

-some also send good by paket