ABSTRACT
The richer peasants do have a screened off part of the house nominally for the women. It is clear that rigid adherence to the Moslem regulations would be impossible in any peasant agricultural and fishing community. All money earned by the fisherman is given to the woman both to spend and to save. Divorce is in fact an extremely common phenomenon, being, as in all Moslem countries, a very simple matter. It is regulated by religious rules and is accomplished by the verbal act of the husband alone, who has merely to pronounce the requisite formula to his wife three times. Certain types of occupation are followed primarily by women, such as the making and selling of snacks, betel and vegetable selling, thread spinning and net making, harvesting padi for wages, making clothes, net making and gutting fish for the dried fish market, and also dealing in fresh, dried and cooked fish.
