Indonesia
Coffee from the highlands of a 17,000-island archipelago
About Indonesia
Indonesia is one of the world's largest coffee producers and one of its oldest: Dutch traders established coffee on Java in the late 1600s, which is why "Java" became another word for coffee. Today coffee grows across thousands of islands, mostly by smallholder farmers in the highlands.
Many Indonesian coffees, especially from Sumatra, are wet-hulled (giling basah). Farmers hull the parchment while the bean is still moist, then finish drying. It's a practical answer to a humid climate, where fully drying parchment on the farm can take weeks.