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32 [[image]] Upturned split bamboo for evap Covered over holding pond One KEBAR none of the salt producers has ever gotten credit from a govn bank or credit source also moneylenders not active in the village must buy bamboo, their major investment, from sale of salt formerly 50% of prod. went to the coop of krupuk makers in solo formerly, with more shifts taking out water, one well supplied 50 kebar + were 36 wells in use - now! well used less intensively supplies only 15 kebar can estimate no. of kebars in use then and now very roughly: 50 x 36 = 1300 kebars 15 x 5 = 75 kebars 33 (75 seems low) complained of an excess of ground water standing on surface now due to underutilization drinking water for the village comes from pure water wells to the south division of labor by sex: men: bring up water from wells + pour it into conduit which leads to holding ponds men + women: fill bamboos with water from [[strikethrough]] evap. [[/strikethrough]] holding ponds "harvest" (panen) of crystals + bleng we were told only women filled, but we saw both men + women doing these bucket tasks maybe division of labor less specialized now than formerly salt crystals sold for 75 Rp a kilo, bleng for 500 Rp a blek