Indonesia
is the world’s largest archipelago with more than 17.000 islands. In
the tourism industry, Indonesia got a new nickname last year in the Frankfurt
Book Fair 2015 as “Islands of Imagination” and the slogan “Wonderful Indonesia”
is very famous on YouTube and got many international awards (search on Google
dude!, that is why we have internet).
Then, every big and medium island in Indonesia
has its own ground or land characteristics mates, where good for every Robusta
and Arabica coffee plantation. Nowadays there are six islands which are the
best for coffee plantations with export quality such as Sumatera Coffee (Sumatera
Aceh Gayo, Sumatera Mandhailing, Sumatera Sidikalang, Sumatera Lintong, Sumatera
Solok Minang, Sumatera Lampung, Sumatera Lahat), Java Coffee (Jawa Malabar,
Java Preanger, Bondowoso, Temanggung, Banyuwangi, Java Ijen – Raung, Java
Estate), Bali Coffee, Sulawesi aka Celebes Coffee (Sulawesi Toraja), Flores
Coffee, and West Papua Coffee (Papua Wamena). The list below is everything you
have to know about Indonesian Coffee.
Javanese Wild Civet Cat Coffee Poops aka Catpoopcino
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Indonesia has a special coffee called
“Kopi Luwak” or Luwak/Loewak Coffee aka Civet Cat Coffee. This coffee at the
first time original from Java Island. The name “Luwak” is taken from Javanese
means Paradoxurus in Latin or Civet Cat in English. In Sumatera Island, native
called “Musang” and in Malaysia also. But, the name Kopi Luwak is more popular
than Kopi Musang. Many people don’t know about this, if Javanese Civet Cat and
Sumatran Civet Cat Coffees are different, and the tastes are also different.
Jack Nicholson in his film, “The Bucket List”
says Kopi Luwak as “the rarest beverage in the world”. But you have to be
careful because not all Kopi Luwak Brands are original. Make sure that, you
drink and buy the original Kopi Luwak from the wild, not from the cage. Some
stupid websites are trying to make a bad image about Kopi Luwak (you can find the websites on Google) from irresponsibility sources
and giving you hoax information. In Yogyakarta (Java Island), Sumatera, Bali,
and Toraja (Sulawesi or Celebes Island) are good choices for you to try the
wild civet cat coffee.
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Indonesian national coffee company PT.
Tanamera Kopi won the competition in Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE)
2016. One of the directors from this company, John Lee said that in press
conference, Jakarta, Tuesday (29/3) 2016, “Won
in the international coffee competition in MICE as prove if Indonesia is one of the best
countries in the world that produces premium coffee beans”.
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Indonesian coffee beans are “specialty
coffee” and got category 83 - 84 in the scale of 100 points from Specialty Coffee
Association of America (SCAA) 2016. Indonesia has been declared by SCAA as
Official Portrait Country 2016 in a special event at 14 – 17th April
2016, Atlanta, Georgia, USA two months ago. In that event, Indonesia had branding “Remarkable
Indonesian Coffee-Home of World’s Finest Coffee”. Do you dare to try
Indonesian Coffee?
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There is an Indonesian woman traveler
wrote her experience about Vietnamese coffee in her book “Backpacking Vietnam”.
She wrote if Vietnamese coffee was better taste than Indonesia. I dare to say
if she had no idea!. I doubt she tried all of coffees variants from Indonesia. In
my opinion she should rethinking again about that. But, talking about taste
everyone has different tastes. You cannot judge subjective opinion.
The Examples of Famous Indonesian Coffees Products ( www.menit-riau.com)
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Coffee in Indonesia first time was Arabica
variant and plant in Java Island in 1696 by Adrian Van Ommen, and ready for
export in 1711. Then, Java Coffee (Kopi Jawa) became the best coffee in the
world between 1725 – 1780. European people had special nick name for
coffee from Java Island, “a cup of Java” and until in the middle of 19th
century Java Coffee became the best in the world in exporter and quality. Until
today, European and people in USA are still familiar with “a cup of Java”.
Then,
in 1900 was the first time for Robusta coffee plant in Java. Today, Java Island
is very famous with the Robusta and Arabica coffee beans. You may visit many
plantations in Central Java Province and East Java Province. Reference: Gabriella Teggia & Mark Hanusz / a cup
of Java / Equinox Publishing (Asia) Pte.Ltd, First Equinox Edition 2003.
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Robert O. Blake, USA ambassador for
Indonesia said in University of Al Azhar Jakarta, Tuesday (26/5) 2015 “From the production, Indonesia is number 3
in the world after Brazil and Vietnam. This is good achievement for Indonesia.
People in USA love Indonesian coffee. Indonesian coffee beans just like
precious gems from Africa and 5,49% imported coffee beans in USA from
Indonesia”.
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Coffee is the fourth biggest export
commodity in Indonesia after palm oil, rubber, and cacao (Saleh Husin, Ministry
of Industry). Indonesia will defeat Vietnamese Coffee in productivity and
export in 2018, because Indonesia has special strategy for that. So, wait and
see Vietnam!.
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Majority premium or “specialty coffee”
beans from Indonesia right now is for export to many countries in the world such
as USA (USD 281,15 million), Japan (USD 104,96 million), Germany (USD 88,4
million), Italy (USD 84 million), Malaysia (USD 70,8 million). For England, France,
Russia, and Australia are the second priority (Nus Nuzulia Ishak, Directorate
General of Developing National Export).
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With more than 250 million populations
in Indonesia, still many people think if instant coffee is real coffee. So,
Indonesian government has homework how to make citizen prefer coffee from the
real coffee beans, not instant coffee or extract nor concentrate. Long time
ago, I was a fan of instant coffee but no more. For me the best coffee taste is
coming from the real coffee beans. I prefer coffee with no sugar or milk. I
love original.
What do you think my
friends? Once again, have you tried Indonesian Coffee before?. For my
Indonesian fellows, “Ayo minum kopi! Cintai Kopi Indonesia!”.
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