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[[Left Page]] - money [[?]] stop in the bad season - a number of the women have never been as far as [[Ciwede?]] - potatos grown on the plantation; good ones sold to Bandung for 300Rp per K, bad ones sold to workers for 150 Rp ((who grows these, on what land?)) women interviewed by [[James?]] said maximum they could pick 30K per timbangan nowadays getting 8-10K for the first timbangan, even less for the second leave home at 7 for fields, return at 6 eat 2 X a day - high death rate, esp. for children - duti hamil (maternity leave) 3 mo; get a payment of 12,000 from co [[crossed-out]] m [[/crossed-out]] when give birth i.e. 4000 Rp a mo. -Saras' data also confirms skin disease (cracking, pecah kulit) common from Kus' notes: - System of weighing where younger girls put in leaves w/ mother & weigh together; - her informant reported a [[pesangon?]] payment of 115,000 Rp [[Right page]] - 2X a mo. a film is shown for the workers at the central complex - [[pergajiam?]] (Islamic classes in rel. teaching) held weekly for men, once every 2 weeks for women - workers buy tea, 540 Rp worth a mo. - standardized loan from the coop is 15,000 to be repaid over a period of 10 x with a 3% interest added to last month only; hence the total repayment of 15,450 - salary for a regular [[mandor?]] 18,800 - 21,000 Rp Kepala mandor gets 32,000 Rp - the money [[?]] fr workers is 250 Rp a mo, 500 for mandors - in [[Suren?]] kampong are 68 female tea pickers & 12 male pickers - women with children on a bottle buy 4-5 cans of sweetened condensed milk ([[indomilk?]] per child per mo. - complaint of the extra work caused by eruptions of [[Galunggurg?]]; leaves must be taken to a water source and washed, but no extra pay per K. and no new workers hired for washing Notes from Stella- some of her respondants expressed an interest in studying Indonesian