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[[left page]] a local term equivalent to gotong royong firing workers (buruh bakar) are paid money wages, 1000Rp a firing- notes seem to inidcate it takes 5 men to fire the 7 from the original work group takes turns sponsoring a firing- all 7 look for stones & wood secara atasan, but the sponsor of that firing apparently pays the buruh bakar, buys any additional firing materials needed, and keeps the hasil of the firing the 7 do not double as buruh bakar, ace to Pak Bugis, but the firing is done by a separate set of men the tomang of Pak Bugis normally produces 2 koyan a firing (see above p47) 1 koyan = 120 blck the price in the village ("harga templat") is nw 23,000Rp a koyan capital which the 'sponsor' uses is borrowed from his friends & neighbors w/out interest [[right page]] buyers (tengkulaks) come to the village they have trouble in the rainy season because firewood doesn't dry out enough for firing Pak Bugis was once taken by Dinas Perindustrian to Gisik (near Surabaya) to see firing with a kompor - he says the result is the same whether fire with wood or residual because "the quality depends on the stone", not tha firing material he would like a kompor says a 10-kilo hammer (palu besan) is use to break up the stone- he wants large crowbars (linggis besan) also Pak Bugis is head of the Bluto Blompok which here says 40 HH (see above p42-43) - think .. are probably 10 tumang used by 40 HH other industries in Bluto, ace to Pak Bugis, are hand pressing of coconut oil & sewing (menjahit)- are total 25 persons who do latter - some own sewing machines, some rent crops raised in the area include