Let us talk about marginal livelihood and poverty. Meanwhile, obey me trigger the discussion with the story behind the scene of kerupuk making process. I choose to try the making process of these chips, known as the most common additional food for local meals. While making this you can estimate the whole business process.
Nothing is cheaper yet more important to complete Indonesian food compared to kerupuk, local chips made of flour with various flavors: shrimp, fish, and onion. Yet this typical chip with onions variant is the least expensive on the earth...
And after two days of struggling with the dough, drying process, and unpredicted climate, I realized I came up with the result: less than a half kilogram of Kerupuk Bawang. and . How can you ask about poverty and the poor?
Lets say the produce 20 times perday. It means 10 kg per day, With the recent price Rp 22.000 per kg kerupuk bawang so they have 220.000 omzet from total product they provide. We can conclude that he basically earn about 50 k. How can they be survived with less than 10 USD per day income.