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above the age of about 13 work, including
women
no electricity at Eileens, but 5
families have TVs
of those who have TVs, all at least
mandor status (i.e. mandor, kepala
mandor, or kepala afdeling)
several families have transistor
radios & play them in the early
morning or at night after returning
from the fields
at ibu kota Patuhaw are located:
   1. house of managers (pejabat)
   2. factory
   3. guesthouse
   4. a sports hall (Gelora)
   5. a good-sized mosque
   6. a sports field
sports hall doubles as a meeting hall
p2 acc. to Rudy, total no. of workers
at Patuhaw: 1250
good season is the rainy season &
workers can get 30-40k a day
lasts only 3 mo.
in dry season only 15-20k a day
-wages paid monthly
one day in every wk called "berasan"
and one day called "minyakan" when
can get these items & other staples from 
the office

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calculation made & cut from wages
at the end of the mo.
generally leave home for the fields
at 6, arrive at 6:30, work till 5:00
(hence 10 1/2 hr day), reach home at 5:30
-young people seldom leave plantation
because of cost & time lost
working
their major goal to work hard so
that, after cuts taken out of
wages for supplies gotten in advance,
still some money left over for
clothes or other secondary needs;
even this goal hard to achieve

p4 (1) 1st interview with "Beshan, pemuda
desa yang berhasil" (Berhan, a
successful youth from the village)

Berhan not born on Patuhaw; a
lurah's child from Majalengka area
who works as a kepala mandor (also
called mandor beeds)
with assistance from older brothers or
sisters able to finish ags, high
school (SPMA) in Bogor & worked for 
a which [[strikethrough]] while at Horticultural 
Research Station in Lenbang
also worked for 2 yrs for lumber co.
in & Kalimantan but came home