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- several K.S. residents work at nearby luxurious Orchid Palace Hotel
- Houses along periphery of K.S. [[strikethrough]]are[[/strikethrough]] have brick & plaster walls or half-walls but as go deeper into the slum houses of bamboo or wood & lower quality
- no public transport in from H.S. Parman, so some K.S. men becak drivers, carrying people to Hotel, komplex, Sekneg, etc
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- in evening [hours] hrs [hours], some men sell cigarettes & bottled drinks along S. Parman while some women who are prostitutes also ply their trade, sometimes selling kue bascom at the same time
- Kali Grogol used as toilet; floods every [year] yr.[year] & low-lying houses & houses near the river [especially] esp [epsecially] affected
- two types of houses in K.S. ie. 'permanent' & 'emergency'
permanent have brick & plaster walls or half-walls, tile or cement floors & tile or zinc roofs; generally owned by [[strikethrough]]low[[/strikethrough]] longer term residents [[with]] w/ [[with]] fairly good incomes - some houses even more than 1 story
- emergency house w/ dirt or cement floors, wood or bamboo walls, zinc

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or fiber roofs; smaller in size these the more recent arrivals [[with]] w/ [[with]] lower incomes
((in fact in K.S & Kebun Kajang see people themselves converting the slums)) 
- [[number]] no. [[number]] of long buildings [[white]] wh. [[white]] partitioned and rooms rented out one by one; very few free-standing houses in K.S.
-high % age of K.S. men are coolie banqunan & can sometimes bring home leftover or used materials, today a window and tomorrow a door, to use for improving houses
-houses owned by 1st residents, a few families who farmed in the beginning; later migrants had to give them 'ganti rugi' for building on the farm land - at one [[point]] pt. [[point]] these older families stopped farming & started new enterprise of building and renting out or selling gubuks on the remaining farm land
-usually after renting a gubuk for some time can buy ('open gubuk') by paying owner a ganti rugi
-prices in mid 1980 were:
100,000-200,000 to buy a good sized gubuk
30,000-100,000 to buy a room in a long house
3000-10,000 a [[month]] mo. [[month]] to rent a gubak