Pictured above is a collective effort by many people, probably family, to get the rice harvested and ready for processing. You can see the man with the scythe cutting the rice into bundles and then the women gather it into bunches and beat it on large tarps. The rice grains fall off of the stalk and are collected for further processing.
The rice looks like this once it has been beaten off of the stalk and collected onto the tarp. Usually from here it is laid in the sun for a little longer to dry and then it is processed again to remove the chaff and then you have rice as you know it. Just like the Eskimos have many words for different types of snow, Indonesians have many worlds for rice in it's various forms. I am still learning all of them...
Not much is wasted. The rice stalks are collected and tied into bales. I am not sure whether the stalks are fed to animals or used as fuel.
This is another nearby sawah. This one has all stages of the rice production currently in process. From empty fields to fields ripe for harvest, this one has it all happening. When it is summer all year long, you can have a perpetual food supply.
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