Indonesia Java Jampit

The history of coffee in Indonesia starting from the Dutch governor in Malabar(Hindia) sending Yemeni Arabica coffee seedlings to the Dutch Governor of Batavia(now Jakarta)in 1696.

The first seeds failed due to flooding in Batavia. A second shipment of seeds sent in 1699. Plants thrive successfully, and in 1711 the first exports sent from Java to Europe by the Dutch East India Company,or VOC as the Netherlands(Vereeningde Oost-Indische Companies) established in 1602. In 10 years, exports rose to 60 tons per year. Indonesia is the first place, outside the Arab and Ethiopia, where the coffee is widely planted.

In the 18th century, coffee shipped from Batavia sold for 3 guilders per kilogram in Amsterdam. Since the annual income in Holland in the 18th century is between 200 to 400 Gulden, this is equivalent to several hundred dollars per kilogram today. At the end of the 18th Century, the price dropped to 0.6 Guilders per kilogram and a cup of coffee spread from the elite to the general public.

Today Indonesia is the fourth largest producer of coffee in the world. And has played an important part in the growth of the country. Indonesia lies in a geography that is ideal for coffee plantations.

Longitude and latitude means that the island country of origin all suitable microclimate for the growth and production of coffee, resulted in widespread enviromental degradation and destruction of tropical rain forests have the highest concentrations of endemic species in the world.