Who doesn’t know coffee? Even if they don’t drink it, of course Indonesian people are familiar with coffee. If coffee used to be considered a drink for old people, now coffee has become a contemporary drink for young people.
Various types of coffee and the booming ‘Coffee Shop’ are some of the factors that make coffee closer to ‘today’s children’ and are now part of a modern lifestyle.
Data from the International Coffee Organization (ICO) noted that the average growth in coffee consumption in Indonesia reached its largest record in 2020/2021. Coffee consumption at that time reached 5 million bags of 60 kilograms, the fifth largest figure in the world after Japanese consumption.
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The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) revealed that in 2023 national coffee production reached 760.2 thousand tons, although compared to the previous year it fell by 1.9%. Previously, in 2022 Indonesia’s coffee production reached 775.0 thousand tons and this was the highest figure in the last decade.
In 2023, South Sumatra will become the largest coffee producing province, with a production volume of 198 thousand tons or 26.05% of the total national production. The next position is also dominated by provinces from Sumatra, namely Lampung, North Sumatra, Aceh, and Bengkulu.
If you visit Wamena, there’s nothing wrong with tasting the coffee blended by the Gallery of Papua Black Gold Coffee or Papuan black gold coffee located in Musaima Village, Hubikosi District, Wamena. This shop owned by Lemius Kogoya provides 13 types of drinks including latte, americano, cappuccino, espresso, single coffee and several other types of drinks and food.
He also admitted that the coffee he mixed manually and self-taught had penetrated the Czech International market as many as 60 packages in 2021 and even penetrated the European market.
source: https://www.rri.co.id/papua/kuliner/855394/nikmat-dan-harumnya-pesona-kopi-indonesia-nan-mendunia