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saw some nets made of a tan
natural fiber called "pocoh" -
formerly all nets were made of
pocoh fiber, but now nylon
has largely replaced ("pocoh mengu-
rangi sekarang") - they describe
pocoh to me and a palm tree almost
like siwalan & teh fiber comes from
the serat - pocoh grows
in the mountains

now a further note on lime-burning
industry, probably jotted down in
the car on the way to our next site:
calcite is the hard form of
limestone while dolomite ca be used
in kilns which fired w/ a kompor &
apparently calcite explodes and
wrecks the kiln
a large continuous - burning kiln
)"kiln kntinu") costs 12 million
rupiahs to build and can produce
4 cubic meters of kapur every 4
hours - such a kiln uses about
50 workers in 2 or 3 shifts
unit cost for a continuous kiln is
half that of traditional kiln ((does
this means the unit cost of firing

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only or the unit cost of the whole production process?))

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BADUNGAN
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next stopped at the limestone block
village of Bandingan (see above
pp 77-80)
-producing rather yellowish rectangular
building stones
-excavating at a depth of 2-3 meters
-the larger excavation of water catchments;
water is used to water the tobacco
crop
we talked with the head of the klompok,
Pak Abdullah
told us that there are 10 excava-
tion site (lobang) scattered about
the area
at Pak Abdullah's excavation
are 4 men needed at any given
time:
      1 to dig (mengali)
      1 to cut out (mencetak)
      1 to lift out hole (menaikan)
      1 to clean (stones?) (membersihkan)
shift around in work assignments,
however, to avoid boredom
can produce 200 stones a day; sell
1000 stones for 11,000 Rp
proceeds divided equally (works out to