Sweet Smell of Enrekang Coffee
The regency of Enrekang in South Sulawesi is blessed with land and weather conducive to good coffee production. Despite its domestic consumption and exports, however, Enrekang coffee is not as popular as that of Tana Toraja, even though both types are grown around the same land area and Enrekang coffee ranks at the top nationally. Realizing the potential, the government has begun actively to re-cultivate and seek new ways of processing this coffee, first grown during the Dutch colonial days. A number of importing countries—like Malaysia—have indicated their interest in providing assistance to the farmers and the local government. A Tempo English Edition special report from Enrekang.
June 15, 2011
A middle-aged man busy at work could be seen in the distance. His white shirt is wrinkled, his black pants shabby. He wears a hat to protect his head. Carrying a basket on his back, the man is really busy sorting the fruit of the coffee trees surrounding him. That man is one of the coffee farmers of Bone-bone village, Baraka subdistrict, Enrekang district, South Sulawesi. That day, near the end of last May, when Tempo visited, the farmers were ha
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