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Robusta Temanggung is robusta grown on the volcanic slopes between Mount Sindoro and Mount Sumbing in Central Java, usually at 800 to 1,200 meters, harvested May to September, and often natural-processed then dry-hulled. It gives a heavy body, low acidity, and a dark-chocolate base built for espresso. What separates a

Enzymatic Kopi Luwak is civet coffee produced without a civet. Indonesian producer Rani Mayasari, working with Prof. Erliza Noor at IPB University in Bogor, ferments coffee using bacteria originally isolated from the Asian palm civet’s digestive tract, cultured in a laboratory and applied directly to the cherry. No animal is

When a Japanese importer opens a bag of Indonesian green coffee, they are trusting a promise: that the beans inside are clean, safe, and legal to sell in one of the strictest food-safety markets in the world. The “ISOPROCARB certificate” is the piece of paper that turns that trust into

On the cupping table in front of me right now, there are five bowls from the same offer sample. The coffee scored well. Then we weighed out 300 grams of the same green, spread it on a black tray, and counted the defects. The tray told a slightly different story

Put a washed Yirgacheffe and a wet-hulled Gayo in the same cupping flight, and you will wonder how both are called arabica. That is the short version of Indonesia vs Ethiopia coffee: Ethiopia gives you florals, citrus, and tea-like clarity at 87 to 92 SCA points on its best washed

Most people planning their first shipment from Indonesia to South Korea worry about the tariff. It’s the wrong thing to worry about. For Indonesian green coffee, the import duty into Korea is effectively 0%, thanks to the Indonesia-Korea trade agreement. The numbers that actually decide your landed cost and whether