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these two pondoks making only parang
- use ion from auto springs (per mobil) - some purchased from an 'agen' and some they buy directly from Pasan Aceh 
price is 100-120 Rp a kilo
-areng is made from regular woods, esp. a wood called 'mane'. - someone makes the aren't in the mtns. 3 kilos away and brings it to the village
1. karong sells for 1500 Rp and there is no change in price during the rainy season
1 karong enough to make 15 parang of ave. size (are diff. types of parang)
-if sell the parang to the coop get only 1000 Rp, but get 1500 each if sell themselves to Pasar Aceh
-using the goat hide bellows here
-parang handles of wood or horn, they make themselves
- 1 k. of iron enough to make 2 (ave.) parang
- in the agr. season the workers go to the fields half a day, then spend the rest of the day in the pondok

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-they say there are 15 pondok owners scattered over 2 villages ((12 work places enrolled in the project in 2 kecamatans))
-they plant tadah hiyan in the rainy season, leave the land gundul in the dry
-Pal Razalli's pondok can make 10 parang a day w/ handles if all 5 men work all day
they generally work 5 days a week, giving themselves Wed. & Sun. off; on Friday they work half a day 
- they estimate their weekly production at 50 parang
-Pak Razalli "Titips" some of his production with a tauke (intermediary) in the pasar in exchange for iron; or he may sell his parangs outright to the tauke
Pak Razalli never sits in the market & sells his products himself
-pondok is the term used for the perapen workshed, but the fire hearth itself is called 'tepur' (= dapur)
-fieldworker says each of 12 tepuns will get + or - 200,000 worth of credit each, including work tools