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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

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- 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