Thanks for the advice from those who commented on my last post.
The original loan was for 200,000 rupiahs. So the idea was to pay back in three installments, 50,000 75,000 and 75,000. So they still owe 150,000. I can't lengthen the loan period as we will be leaving here Aug 3. So I will wait and see what they do. They have paid me back any other monies I have ever loaned to them, although the previous amounts were never quite as high as this one.
It still amazes me how little money these people live on. You hear people talk about the poverty line in many Thirld World countries being living below $1 US a day. I bet that each person in that house eats close to or less than $1 a day in food. When I think about what I spend on a meal for us all, wow, there's just no comparison. If we didn't ever eat bread, cheese, real meat, fruit, drink milk or pop or juice, we'd be there. For them it is a big deal to buy a package of Indomi for everyone. Indomie is the Indonesian version of Mr. Noodles (only yummier) and costs anywhere from 800 rups to 1,000 rups a package. So that's between 10 and 14 cents each! They eat tofu, tempe (also a soy product), eggs or occasionally fish for protein. Of course, they eat rice at pretty much every meal.
I still can't bring myself to eat nasi goreng for breakfast... :-) But I'll have sausage, bacon, eggs and hashbrowns....