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discussions w/Puji; based on her own researches in W. Java:
women on tea plantations work mainly as pickers & sorters
are 2 types of laborers:
1. permanent who live on the plantations
2. seasonal 
is a social gap between wives of upper strata (management) who, acc. to Puji, are very influential, and common plantation women who work as pickers & sorters acc. to Puji "FBSI recognition is not perfect yet" but limited mainly to the small class of white collar and clerical workers
permanent bush perkelbunan live in [[strikethrough]] Baracks-style housing, 2 or 3 families to a baracks
seasonal workers, however, live in nearby villages and are farmers in other season
((which are slow and busy seasons for tea?))
Puji or Stella mentioned research carried out by the Asia-Amer. Free labor Institute on women on the plantations
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-Puji mentioned research carried out by Kate Young on Mexican plantations
-Puji says that at the time of her research (1977-78) women workers were earning 150 Rp a day on the ave. for a 5-hr. workday (7:00-12:00N)
men earning ave 300 Rp a day
-notes that job opportunities for women on tea plantations are declining because more men are willing to do sorting + picking
workers paid by output- when hit certain target gear a premi.
Puji notes schooling differences between boys + girls on the plantation; same participation rates at lower levels but girls pulled out of school at an earlier age
- our project will have 2 goals:
1. explicit goal of improving women's welfare
2. implicit goal to increase women's particip. in labor org.
{{margin}} Jaya Negara
at noon we continued on [[strikethrough]] to Jaya Negara, a private plantation (P.T.=Porseroan Terbatas) located about halfway between Jakarta and Bandung. (turn rt +/-25 K before Sukabumi, drive in on plant. road 1 hr.)