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46 are making very rough quality keset with red + green strips; are about 70 houses which make ; according to the fieldworker about 20 HH will get credits under the 2nd -yr project ((DUP says 12 HH)) - use rough slanted looms with nails for attaching fibers - coconut fibres are brought in hanks - wax plain but wet braided - women all ages and male children make the mats - house we visited had 4 buruh upah (wage workers), though we were told not all houses have buruh upah; wages 40 Rp keset (piecework) - an adult woman can make a maximum of 10 keset a day, a child about 8 - the green and red fibers are dyed with a hot-water dye called "ginju" which is brought in powdered form - mats are sold by "[[setoring]]" them with someone in Pasar Aceh - coconut husks are buried in the ground for 6 months before the fibers are taken - are also rope makers in this village + in neighboring villages near the coast 47 - some houses make both rope + mats; some also make rough carpets called ambal to order next stopped alongside the road to photograph women stripping fiber ([[sabut]]) from husks at the edge of ponds; apparently husks have just been taken out of the mud where they have been buried for some months women + children make rope + sell for 24 Rp a bunch plain, 50 Rp braided Kota Baru next visted a village producing weaving from [[?]] palm fiber village called Kota Baru and is enrolled in 1st-yr provincial training project (see above p. 9 - 10) SVP. says are 9 kampongs w/ 250 kk doing [[?]] weaving, but only 15 in training course all households make [[?]] [[?]], but only 2 doing fine work purses to process the [[?]], first the fiber ((leaves?)) are dried, then split with a knife