About This Coffee
Pak Echwan, a farmer in Bondowoso, East Java, started off very small but has a big vision for his village and coffee farmer community.
Being one of the head coffee farmers in this coffee-growing region, he took the initiative in his village to implement an ever-improving quality mindset and educate the local community. Previously, the villagers in his area who grew coffee never really thought about process improvements, didn't have access to education around coffee, and just wanted to sell it quickly and cheaply. Still, Pak Echwan is determined to lift his region's coffee quality year after year as he implements more and more proper processing, equipment, and storage.
Cultivation
Bondowso coffee is grown at an altitude of around 1100-1200 m.a.s.l and is a mix of Arabica USDA 762 (Majority), Lini S795, S288, and Cobra. Harvest season starts around June to August.
Harvest & Post-Harvest
For their washed process coffee, they carefully pick cherries in their optimal ripeness stage, and then the cherries are sorted by flotation, depulped, and fermented in tanks for 24 hours, to then be washed and sun-dried on raised beds. Once the coffee is properly dried, the beans are hulled, sorted, and prepared for export.
Sustainable Harvest
Sustainable Harvest® is a specialty coffee trader focusing primarily on bringing coffees to market that are sourced from smallholder farmer cooperatives in the supply chain such as indigenous communities, women groups and the next generation of coffee farmers.
Their sourcing model is built on transparency, traceability and direct relationships between quality-minded coffee roasters and best-in-class coffee producers. Sustainable Harvest® has an on-site presence at origin with staff in Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Peru. Each office coordinates their supply including quality management, supplier relationships, source development, logistics, training and capacity building.
Coffee in Indonesia
Indonesia has a long coffee producing history, but recently their coffees have been overlooked by the specialty market. Thanks to our innovative and ever-expanding supply chain, we are proud to bring you high-quality coffees from many of Indonesia’s unique regions, accompanied by in-depth traceability information.
Indonesia is perhaps best known for its unique wet hulling process (giling basah). Though its exact origins are unclear, wet hulling most likely originated in Aceh during the late 1970s.
Wet hulling’s popularity can be attributed to producers’ need for prompt payments. It was also adopted specifically by many producers who lacked the drying infrastructure that was needed to shelter drying parchment from the high humidity and inconsistent rainfall typical in Sumatra. At higher elevations with constant humidity and unpredictable rainfall, drying can prove to be slow, risky and difficult.