To lean the salt transport boat from Gili Island, Madura at the Port of Panarukan, Situbondo, East Java means it is for salt counterparts. Seven people of the rushed salt transport goes through the shallow waters because the ship can not lean onto the port edge.
As usual, seven people share tasks among others insert salt into the sacks, sew the sacks, and bake hundreds of sacks into the ground. Don’t forget the coffee set accompanying their work. Usai is packaged in the sacks, the men of salt transport should penetrate the sea water as high as their chest with load between 70 kilograms - 90 kilograms in the shoulder.
The arrival of salt transport vessels is equal to money for them. Salt transport ships only come a week twice. Each ship carries 21 tons of salt, the salt is lowered from the ship by seven people with the wage of each person Rp 45,000.
The unloaded salt on the boat is pelvicted to the ground to be collected near the port. Next salt is carried to a number of factories to be repacked and distributed for East Java region. And despite the weight, hard and salty, the work of transporting salts is sweet for salt counterparts such as the sweetness of coffee eco that accompany them when salt dismantle.
Photo and Writing : Seno S.
