REPUBLICA.CO.ID, The aroma of rice husks mixed with morning dust still lingered in the air. At eight o'clock, Dusun Tempuran, Karawang Regency, was not yet fully awake. In a simple, warehouse-like building, Mohamad Encun—known to the locals as Haji Encun—sat calmly next to his rice milling machine. The green paint was faded, the components seemed worn, but the old machine still faithfully processed each sack of rice, even though it was not as busy as before. The owner of the five-hectare rice field explained the rice milling process smoothly. Starting from separating the husk from the rice in the hulling machine to producing white rice from the polisher. In a day, Encun mills two to three sacks of rice. He receives 15 thousand rupiah for every 30 kilograms of rice. It is not a big business, but a dedication to ensuring his neighbors can still eat rice. This is what keeps small rice mills like Encun's still running. "If there are small mills like this, someone will always mill. If ...