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[[top margin - over 550Rp]] see correction below [[/top margin]]
550Rp @ per day)
stone-cutters work from 7-11 AM each day; all have land which they farm sore hari
wives both farm & take care of cattle (memlihara sapi)
neaby villages also make limestone blocks
they say that the stone used for kaupr must be hanrder than the stone used for bata putih, so don't get both industries in the same village
- there is a road of sorts leading into limestone quarry area - must be terrible in rainy season but they say trucks of buyers make it in year round
road still ±200 meters from any individual quarry, more from some thus use hired buruh angkut to carry stones to road - buruh angkut may use horse on pikul - get paid borogan, 1500Rp for 1000 stones (hence can revise above profit figure for 4 members of work group to 475Rp @ per day)
- they would like tools under our project but claim that the linggies is faster than the gergaji

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the Diklat mentioned on p 79 above to begin Monday (r.g the Monday after our visit)

we next walked down the bad road to see a 9m rectangular excavation forming a beautiful pale yellow pool filled with blue water; pool is stepped to make it easier to carry the stones out

[[left margin]] KLOMPANG BARAT [[/left margin]]

continued on to lime burning village of Klompang Barat (pp 80-82 above)
stopped at the open (tomang) of Pak A.H. Mohsaleh
are 4 tomangs in the village with up to 10 workers per tonlang
(15 look for stone
(25 look for wood
they do their own fixing, i.e. don not hire special buruh bakar
per firing get 4 1/2 koyans of lime (1 koyan = 120 blek)
4 1/2 koyans sell for 80,000Rp - for stones & wood spend 45,000, so 35,000Rp left after each firing for wages & profit
each worker paid 750Rp a day &