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[[drawing]]
three two equal-sized circles w/ a small circle in between. big circles connected to little circle with two parallel lines. first circle labeled "sand," second labeled "water," and third labeled "sand."
[[ end of drawing ]]

sand is raked os when salt water comes in it will [[??]] w/ sand
then pile up 2 low (1 ft. high) circular beds about 1 1/2 meters across; between these beds a shallow hole
beds disiram w/ salt water (salt water poured over) + salt in sand release + goes into hole
water in hole collected and cooked; a palm frond buried under sand carries water into hole
- proyck percontohan (demo project) also includes small evap. trays of about 1 M 20 centim x 7 meters; lined with black plastic to aid sun absorption; roll-back plastic tops
- at the demo site we saw 3 of these trays; were full of dry leaves + they say havv't used trays for past 2 months because of drought
- cooked salt demo shed produces 3 calengs a day as composed with / a day formerly; manned by two workers

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my memory, not in notes
difference in new oven which conserves firewood, is larger (2 kuali) and cooks faster
cooked salt currently sells for 1000 Rp per kaleng (15 K0
1 cubit of wood costs 3000 Rp + enough to cook 4 batches of salt (4 kdli masak)
they bay wood from an "orangetor" (some-one who "setors" or leaves the wood with them) - this person brings it in by truck from Kurang Rava forest, located 18 K away - hardwoods, esp. a wood called laban
formerly they used 1 cubit of wood to cook 6 batches, but much smaller kualis
the buyers of cooked salt use bicycles, pick up the salt by the kaleng, 2 or 3 kalengs at a time
the buyers sell the salt aroudn the kampoago (edar ke kampong 2)

DARUS-SALAM
next visited the nearby coconut fiber matting village of Darusalan - this village enrolled in a 2-nd yr tingkat II project (see above p26-28)