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38 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 39 -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