Gayo is a region on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, surrounded by mountains and hills, with volcanic soil and a rainforest climate. The cooperative has more than 25 years of experience in coffee cultivation for the last 12 years they have been exporting their own coffee (about 22 500 bags per year). It has 1,080 members who together own 1,040 hectares of coffee fields, and 71% of these members are women. The Ketiara cooperative, on the other hand, is an exception. At the same time, only 10% of them are entrepreneurs and only 20% are land owners (this percentages include co-ownership with spouses). In Indonesia, women are around 70% of the workforce in the coffee fields. This coffee from the Gayo region of the Indonesian island of Sumatra has several.
The beans have to be dried so many times due to the moisture in the atmosphere caused by the tropical climate.When choosing the coffee we will be roasting, we focus not only on the quality of the coffee, but also on its unique story. It’s not a simple process and workers face many challenges when harvesting coffee beans in Indonesia, that is aside from the humidity and manual labor.
Workers then remove the skins from each individual cherry.The coffee is harvested from the plants and separated so the cherries remain.When going through the wet hulling process, these are the stages that are followed: This involves removing the skin of the coffee cherry, fermenting the beans, and washing off the remaining fruit before leaving it to partially dry.Įach method of coffee harvesting will alter the taste of the bean, but the taste would also be dependent on the roasting method and technique used. Sumatra coffee is harvested using the wet hulling technique.
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