Indonesia is known as one of the world’s largest coffee manufacturers. Indonesia’s coffee market potential has opened the wide opportunities for people to entrepreneur in the field of coffee.
This golden opportunity is to be utilized Ayi Sutedja, the 57-year man who managed to bring the world’s aroma of Puntang Coffee. He started his step by minuteing the Arabicese type of Puntang Coffee Seeds to carry the Ministry of Trade in the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) Expo 2016.
In the event, Puntang coffee became the most expensive coffee at the price of 55 US dollars per kilogram. The rating is also highest, with scores 86,25 from Q-Grader who has passed the examm Coffee Quality Institute after passing tight training and exams.
Photo of the coffee garden land on the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
The young farmers harvest the arabian coffee at the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
In 2020, Puntang Coffee is also once again introduced to world coffee lovers through the contest followed by Anomali Coffee in France. This West Java pride coffee succeeds in making bronze medals. Since then, the name of Puntang Coffee began to be known in foreigners. Various orders of the coffee beans begin to hand, from Europe to America.
Ayi said, on the slopes of Mount Puntang, Bandung District, coffee tree was originally only utilized citizens as a divider of vegetable garden. There is no special coffee plantation, especially special farmers who manage this commodity. The new recent years of Puntang Coffee began to rise the caste into organic coffee that has the highest score in some coffee appraisal events.
There are several factors that make the Puntang Coffee have a distinctive taste. First, Mount Puntang has humus soil at a height of about 1.400 mdpl. Second, the temperature in Gunung Puntang is less than 20 degrees. Then the third, the planted coffee seeds are Sunda coffee seeds.
The work of washing coffee fruit before processing in the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
The work of drying coffee beans that have been harvested in the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
There are three ways to process Puntang Coffee. The first way is with the natural process, namely harvesting the fruits of coffee that has been red and then sunny. The second way is with semi wash or honey, which is to pick coffee fruit, wash, scream, and then sunbath it. The third way is full wash, which is done by picking coffee fruits, washing, winding, giving fermentation, and then sunbathing.
At present, the foot of Mount Puntang has become one of the favorite tourist destinations of coffee lovers in Bandung, along with the mushrooms of coffee shops. Many accidental tourists come to this mountain only to taste her phenomenal coffee. The Ketenaran Coffee Puntang also encourages young children in South Bandung area to begin trying to farm coffee and start business since early.
Photo and text : Raisan Al Farisi
Ayi Sutedja coffee farmers separate the skin from coffee beans in the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
Petani examines the level of maturity and aroma of coffee in the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
Sertifikat belongs to Ayi Sutedja is believed in the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
The packaging of coffee in the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
Petani brews the coffee of Mount Puntang in Bandung Regency, West Java.
The work markets Puntang coffee products through social media on the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java. Coffee shop at the foot of Mount Puntang, Bandung Regency, West Java.
Editor : Prasetyo Utomo
