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12 duction unit 5. SIWALAN WEAVING - are a total of 1349 households on Madura which do ? leaf weaving (anyaman daun siwalan) - are another 90 persons who find work as pedagang pengumpal also an industry done mainly as sambilan by older women from farm families + which provides low returns main product is tikar - returns for person who owns 100 trees about 1000 Rp per mo. - ? earn about same pedagang / pengumpul can earn quite a lot, however, because they can at times ("dalam masa-masa musim berakhir" -?) push profits up to 100% of price paid to ? - close relation between anyaman siwalan industry + the siwalan sugar industry both carried out from april-october when ? (palm sap_ is tapped + when work in fields stops (i.e. dry season) ((thus a dry season industry, not yearround)) 13 in dry season production period one family can complete 10 tikar a week, with measurements of 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 feet each ((2 X 3 meters)) curiously report says that altho [[although]] time for picking leaves + getting sap same, not all families can do both owing to "their weakness in the market" ("? kedudukan terhadap pasasan") - generally must specilize in one or the other ((can sugar makers sell their leaves to tikar makers? can tikar makers sell their sape to sugar makers?)) -main use of ? mats is for wrapping (bunkusan) tobacco, salt, salt fish + the ? sugar itself -based on production figures of these goods report estimates still a possibility for expanding market of ? mats -main problem, acc. [[according]] to this rpt [[report]], is that 3 or 4 moths between main production and main consumption season (( based on uses above can guess main consumpt. [[consumption]] at end of dry season)) which allows pedagang pengumpul to main ? -price to the ped. [[pedagang]] peng. [[pengumpul]] at about 35,000 Rp a month as compared w [[with]] 1000 a mo. [[month]] for tree owners