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Today, Indonesia's coffee plantations cover a total area of approximately 1.24 million hectares, 933 hectares of robusta plantations and 307 hectares of arabica plantations. Indonesia proved to have a near ideal climate for coffee production, hence plantations were soon established on other parts of Java and on the islands of Sumatra and Sulawesi. Regarding agricultural commodities, coffee is Indonesia's fourth-largest foreign exchange earner palm oil, rubber and cocoa.Ĭoffee was introduced to the archipelago by the Dutch who initially planted coffee trees around their stronghold of Batavia but quickly expanded coffee production to the Bogor and Sukabumi regions in West Java in the 17th and 18th century. Indonesia is also famous for having a number of specialty coffees such as ' kopi luwak' (known as world's the most expensive coffee) and ' kopi Mandailing' (see below). Most of production constitutes the lower quality robusta type. Indonesia is among the world's top coffee producing and exporting countries. Source: International Coffee Organization Coffee in Indonesiaĭomestic Production, Export and Consumption of Indonesian Coffee Top 5 Coffee Bean Exporting Countries in 2016-2017 Season: Top 5 Coffee Bean Producers in Crop Season 2016-2017: 1.

Below, are two tables that indicate the top five coffee producing countries and the top five coffee exporting countries. Therefore, countries that dominate the world's coffee production are found in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.Ĭoffee is a traded commodity on major futures and commodity exchanges, most importantly in London and New York.

The subtropical and equatorial regions provide good conditions for coffee to be grown. Arabica beans, more expensive on the world market, have a milder taste and contain approximately 70 percent less caffeine than robusta beans. The difference between these two types mainly lies in its taste and the level of caffeine. Coffee that is sold on the world market is usually a combination of roasted beans of two botanic types: arabica and robusta.