The Artisans

Pak Yosef

West Java

Pak Yosef is an academic farmer who decided to change his career as a marketing executive in order to help farmers in the area to improve the quality of their coffee to the specialty level. He only buys super ripe cherries from the farmers but guarantees a much higher price than other processors. He has also been a pioneer of multiplication of Typica Asli (genuine Typica variety) and Caturra Asli (genuine Caturra variety) in the region. His farms are inside a deep jungle of Tangkuban Perahu, which could only be reached via a dirt road by a 4WD and it takes 3 hours from his processing mill.

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Pak Selamat

Pelaga, Bali

It all started from here! Bon Village is nestled in the deep jungle of Bali, a 3 hour-bumpy & crazy ride away from the center of Bali. It’s a simple village where most residnets are coffee farmers. Pak Selamat, the 4th generation coffee farmer himself, is our guy for this farm where we only do full wash process using homemade enzyme made from local fruits and holy water running through the farm, in order to enhance the beans’ fermentation. Bali is an island of gods… people believe in lives within all beings and bless them with holy water chosen by Hindu high priest.

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Pak Echwan

West Java

Pak Echwan is a young visionary who has founded this project so that the youth would stay in the villages instead of moving to bigger cities. He’s a leader of the youth coffee farmers’ group and continuously tries to improve the quality of their coffee while he implements and adjusts their new processing methods. They also have rare varieties on Arabica, Orange Boubon and Blue Mountain as well as Conuga (small seed Robusta).

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Pak Haddin

Takengon, Sumatra

Pak Haddin’s farms are spread out in a deep mountain of Takengon, Sumatra. The area is known as the region for the best quality Mandelin while it also hosts a limited number of ancient Arabica varieties such as Bergendal and Abyssinia trees. Pak Haddin’s family have used anaerobic fermentation natual (Wine Process) for these rare varieties for generations.

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