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Abduls' wife & 1 female buruh harian who is paid 350 Rp for a morning's work (6AM - 10 AM) - it takes 4 days for a batch of tempe to jadi with 10 gantang (ganteng?) of dry beans can make about 50 sheets of tempe (actually made inside plastic wrappers) sell tempe for 200 Rp a sheet can calculate profit: 10g. X 9 00 = 1000 Rp for beans 350 labor (if 1 day, ----- more if more days) 9350 costs 50 sheets X 200 = 10,000 intake -9350 ------ 650 profit women use wood because "yangkeja wanita, masih belum mengesti cara menghidupkam kompor" ("the ones who work are women, they still don't understand how to start up a kompor") women boil their beans & then take them to the river beside Bu Abduls house where they stamp the beans inside a basket with [[right page]] their feet till the skins float away - then the next day the beans are boiled again the tempe mold on 'ragi' is bought in the form of powder (bubuk) from Jember (formerly on a waru leaf) if the beans aren't stamped properly & all the skins removed then the tempe won't turn out well ("tidak jadi baik") Pak Abdul market his wife's tempe at the same time he markets his own tahu - says he sells all the tempe hi wife makes & could sell more but they are short of labor ("kurang tehaga") - not many women in the village can stamp beans properly Pak Abdul would like a mechanical grinder (Mesin giling) for his tahu business - seemed not too interested in getting assistance for his wife's tempe business & indeed men of the village showed rather condescending attitudes toward wive's tempe enterprises