Coffee Indonesia

Indonesia has known as one of the world’s finest coffee beans producer. Since the colonization of the Netherlands to the Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles to Max Haavelaar to the Starbucks era, Java coffee has been famously recognized as one among world’s best coffee. In 18th century, people of the world called a cup of coffee as a cup of Java. But after the disaster that ruined all the Arabica plantations, now Indonesia produces Robusta more than Arabica.

Coffee is one of the Indonesian tradition, you can find it every where. From a small stall to coffee shop. You can get it from US$0.20 to US$35 a cup.

If you’ve been to Starbucks, then you’ll know some of Indonesian coffee like Sumatra, Mandheling, Kalosi, or may be Kopi Luwak (it’s real and I saw luwak, a kind of forest cat, a few times). But, we people in Indonesia named the coffee by its origin. Sumatra is a large island, and there are several famous traditional coffee producers. 

And, this is how we recognize our coffee: 

From Sumatra, we have Kopi Aceh, Kopi Medan (known as Mandailing or Mandheling), Kopi Lampung, and in West Sumatra they brew coffee leaves and drink it from a coconut shell!

In Jawa or Java, we have Robusta coffee produced from the famous Losari coffee plantation, and the legendary Kopi Eva, and Kopi Banaran. 

Bali also has a famous village in Bedugul who keep a tradition of coffee served in clay pot. 

Sulawesi or Celebes has world’s famous coffee Kalosi Toraja or we call it as Tator (Tanah Toraja).

West Papua produced wild organic coffee beans, the size of the beans moderately smaller than other coffee beans.