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114 to approaching holidays & price of tapioca sent them home the morning of our visit takes 8 people to operate extruders: 4 making krupuk 1 tifting stones on & off leves platforms 1 mixing flour & spice water 2 drying, transfering from small to big trays etc. apparently does not include cookers built his extruders in 1977 on the W. Java model wh/ he says is trad. there he claims they are better than Pak Lurahs & only cost him 10,000 Rp a set to make - he says that Pak Lurah's cost 50,000 to buy & has spent another 50,000 for repairs - - his prod. for 8-man team is 1 kwintal a day both Lurah & Pak Koman making fried in oil krupuk mie other notes for vil - lost sorgum crop due to lack of rain - watermelon 115 due soon asked Pak Lurah since tapioca up how people are living & says from petty trade & agr work - I asked what agr work available at end of dry season & said land prep. ((note again the fact that ind. entreps not usually village officials)) [[left margin]] same day - same day, another visit to genteng village of Jragung in Demak visited first kiln of Pak Paryono - process: 1. dig up clay in clods from riverbank sites - if clay has a lot of sand in it, then don't need to add more sand - if not will dig up sand too; Pak Paryono says women do all processes & here use gendogan for carrying while men use pikul 2. rendaman - soaking clods w/ water - amt. of water varies acc. to season 3. ngluluh - mix clay, water + sand w/ feet 1 person 2 hrs + 350 Rp per job but can also do it w/