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Some origins matter for how they taste. Timor matters for what it did to every other coffee. Timor coffee is arabica grown on Timor island, split between Indonesian West Timor in the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and independent Timor-Leste to the east. The Indonesian side grows organic, smallholder

When someone calls coffee “a cup of Java,” this is roughly where the phrase was born. Java Malabar coffee is Arabica grown on the slopes of Mount Malabar, above Pangalengan in the West Java highlands, part of the historic Java Preanger region where the Dutch planted some of Indonesia’s first

If you have ever bought “Sulawesi Kalossi,” you have bought Enrekang coffee, whether the bag said so or not. Sulawesi Enrekang coffee is Arabica from Enrekang Regency in South Sulawesi, the highland region just south of Tana Toraja, and Kalosi is simply its historic trading town. Grown between about 1,200

Most Indonesian coffee grows on a volcano. This one does not. Papua Wamena coffee is arabica grown in the Baliem Valley, high in the Jayawijaya mountains of Papua, on some of the most remote farmland in the country, reachable historically only by air or on foot. It is grown between

Everything you think you know about Sumatran coffee, Solok politely ignores. Minang Solok coffee is arabica grown in Solok Regency, in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra, and it is bright, clean, and fruity where most Sumatra is heavy and earthy. Grown between roughly 1,400 and 1,600 meters around Mount

The British planted coffee here before there was Indonesia. Bengkulu was Bencoolen, an East India Company outpost on Sumatra’s west coast, and coffee has been a cash crop on these slopes ever since. Today Bengkulu coffee is one of the largest robusta origins in the country, the third biggest producer