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106 by itself so united with roso (scrap iron) iron sand comes from HUMPUSS in Lampung, which is owned by Segit Suharto, son of the president has been in operation last 5 years BRIs outstanding loans to Cepe, include: 4-5 loans to 'agen bahan baku (four or five) roso (scrap iron dealers) over 100 loans to producers, i.e. owners of tungkik about 40 loans to traders of cast iron products this out of a total of about 433 loans outstanding in July + about 71 written off (dafta hiltam) thus, appr. 1/3 of the loan business of this unit to cast metal ind. in Batur rice is [[strikethrough]]harb[[/strikethrough]] harvested in this area in May + Sept, 2x a year cane grown in alteration w/ rice + tebu rakyat program still being forced in the area the metal industry in Batur having problems now w/ check mundur -forced to the checks, but when no funds in the 107 bank the buyers say they will pay later then, because short of cash, producers are forced to get raw materials on credit from 'agen', with hidden interest of about 3% they say that all the producers use steenkol (coke) from Semasang +Jkt. as fuel are 3 or 4 subagents for steenkol in Ceper now many producers [[strikethrough]]have[[/strikethrough]] (who were formerly landless) have bought rice fields outside - they do not farm these fields themselves but rent or have crop them out problems in metal industry have caused arrears at unit to go up cost of living in bec. Ceper about 150,000 Rp per mo. minimum, plus about 20,000 Rp for school expenses if 1 child in SD +1 in SMP male agr. wages 2000-3000 Rp per day, and female 1500-2000 Rp agr. laborers from other districts in '91'-92 agr. sector hit both by drought and several kinds of rice pest (walang sangit, walang bresek which produces stems w/no grain, and wereng coklat which attaches from below