The morning, a number of pics, busy, moving the sugar from the lori to the grinding machine. “Siji... loro.... telu...,” says a worker with East Java logical that means one, two, three, guided another worker hooked the chain to a sugar pile above the lori. Thousands of sugars are lifted, waiting for turn to be grinded processed into sugar.
The day is up to 5 months of warming is a busy moment for workers in Poerwodadie sugar plant located in Magetan, Madiun Regency, East Java. The factory was founded by the Dutch Indian Government in1832 which was currently named the Dutch Hendel Maatschapij.
In 1959, Poerwodadie was taken over his possession by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and its management was submitted to the State Planting Company (PPN). The factory has never been one of the 179 units of sugar mills that have ever stood in the archipelago and bulging Indonesia into one of the world’s leading sugar exporters.
But over the round of the old milling machine every year operates 24 hours for approximately 5 months, one after one national sugar support plant began to stop operating. Up to now only remaining about 60s of factories spread throughout Indonesia shoulders improve the needs of water sugar.
Text and photo: Kurniawan Sigid
