Sutinah, Rusiyem and Girah Trio

The three of them are rice field workers in Nitiprayan

“I started from my house in Bantul at 6 AM, using bicycle. Then, I went straight to planting until this afternoon.” Girah said. They offered me a cup of hot tea and gethuk, cassava cake. “Monggo, Mbak. Meniko panganan ndeso, mboten wonten teng Jakarta.” – help yourself, dear sister. This is a traditional village snack, you will not get it in Jakarta.

In planting season like this, almost every day they get an order to plant rice. “We go around the villages,” Sutinah said. “For every one thousand meter square of rice field plot we get Rp. 100 to 150 thousand.” Today, they have three plots to do. “The fee is Rp. 250 thousand.”

If it was not planting season, they make weave bamboo baskets, fans, boxes. Which one is better, planting rice or weaving bamboo basket? “Podo rekasane, Mbak, all are hard work. Sing penting halal, njih, nopo njih…. as long as it is halal money, it’s okay. haha.”


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