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one w/ a 5x greater capacity 
- sugar syrup sold per blek to an intermediary who in turn sells to bread and shoyu factories - capacity of the factory is 6 bleks a day, selling for 3500 @ = 21,000 Rp a day intermediary from a neighboring village 

Pak Vsman Ishak head of the 5-man klompok kerja wives help with cane cutting

[illustration with labels] Holes for kuali, fireholes for sloking, earth oven

if boil sugar syrup down even further to make gula jawa can sell 1 for 150 a k in the village, 250 in Banda Aceh
estimated profit on 1/4 hektare of cane per harvest is 50,000 Rp (untung bersih) 

30 hectares of profit  cane can already be harvested, 20 more planted sugar workers each receive 750 Rp per day in addition to using dry cane for firing use some wood as "bantalan" to raise up cane straw - we urged a replanting program as only a limited number of trees on surrounding hills
- when boiling down syrup a basket on a pole set down into the kuali - increases surface area and hence rate of evaporation 
- Tavy says sediment can be precipitated out with lime

Thursday 
2/14/80 next morning
met with Abu Hayatun, head of Dept. of Industry Aceh and despite Aceh's reputation for fanatic anti-feminist Islam, she is the only female head of provincial Dept. of Industry in Indonesia)

discussions not too useful,[Ibu Hayatun?] being rather busy and distracted - entertaining simultaneously two gentlemen from an organization