The world’s surfers recognize Krui, western Lampung with beautiful beaches, the wave rolls are very long, even reaching 200 kilometres. However, the community of Krui does not live the livelihood of tourism, rather downloading damar sap that is the heritage of the fall of their ancestors.
Marhana (41) chick village Pahmungan, Krui, is one of the people who hang his life from downloading the damar sap. It is able to climb the damar tree as high as 40 meters. Armed the rattan basket, armed the wooden dictator, it should run two to three kilometers into the forest, climb and climb the damar tree to download the sap.
Get the damar taken home to be sorted. Before sorting, it polishes a mixture of cold powders on the face, neck, and hands so that the damar sap is easy to clean from the body. Marhana collects damar to collector. The whole damar collected by farmers, then sorted again which qualities are best.
Serve Damar
Bentuk rubber damar
Finally getah-getah damar was sent to buyers from Jakarta, Solo, Surabaya, Malaysia, to China. The damar rubber will then be processed into products such as glass, cosmetics, aibon glue, to gum.
Text and Photos : Rosa Panggabean
Dissolves the damar
Cadik, a tool used to download the damar
Marhana (41) specializes as a downloader of the damar
Ibu-ibu in Krui sorts the damar in the collecting warehouse
Marhana (41) climbs the tall damar tree can reach 40 meters
