By : Agus *)
Indonesia Government through Ministry of Trade says able to replace Brazil as most coffee supplier in the world. To achieve that goal, official of Trade Ministry which led by Thomas Trikasih Lembong plans to boost coffee export to destination countries such as Italy and the United States.
Currently, Indonesia is fifth of rows of coffee-exporting countries in the world after Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, and Germany. While in the past five years, the number of Indonesian coffee exports to Italy continues to increase approximately 10.14 percent.
In fact, throughout the period of January to June 2015 the realization of Indonesian coffee figure has touched the figure of US $ 69.64 million, an increase of 65.86 percent over its position in the same period last year of US $ 44.21 million.
Departing from the Ministry of Trade will continue to disseminate the processed coffee products Indonesia. “The culture of drinking coffee so tightly in Italy. We will countinue introduce best coffee blends archipelago. Later coffee market is so high that we want to grab and switch from coffee beans into coffee processing,” said Director General of Export Development (DG PEN), Nus Nuzulia.
Following the shift the target for Brazil as the largest exporter of coffee world, Nus said the Ministry of Commerce is conducting socialization efforts along the archipelago coffee Coffee Exporters Association (GAEKI).
He hopes that, with the efforts of a number of people begin this socialization of importers, roasters, barristas to shop owners and connoisseurs of coffee from Italy were able to know in detail the peculiarities of coffee Questioning archipelago includes Sumatra, Java, Bali, Flores to Papua.
*)The Author is Brunei Contributor.
