Farmer: 44 Smallholder Producers
- Origin: Indonesia
- Region: Cipaganti Village, West Java
- Farm: Tenjolaya Ciwidey Wet Mill
- Altitude: 1750 Meters
- Processing: Washed
- Varietal: Catimor, Gayo II, Tim Tim, Typica
This coffee comes from:44 smallholder local producers cultivate this fine coffee. "Tikukur" is a type of turtle dove native to the region where this coffee is grown, and the nearby mountain shares the same name. Local farmers in this area sell their cherries directly to Covoya's wet mill at Tenjolaya Ciwidey. There, the cherries are immediately pulped and fermented for 16 hours before being dried in solar dryers. Only the ripest red cherries are selected, with floating used as a quality control step, ensuring the highest cup quality.
Coffee was first successfully planted on Java around 1700, but its cultivation spread slowly across what would become the Indonesian archipelago. Interestingly, Java’s green coffee played a foundational role in the development of Central American coffees and, alongside Arabian Mocha, was already recognized as one of the world’s finest long before commercial cultivation reached neighboring islands. It’s also worth noting that, until the early 20th century, nearly all coffee from any island in the Dutch East Indies was labeled “Java,” making the definition of “Java coffee” historically fluid.
Some of the large coffee estates established by the Dutch over 175 years ago still exist on the volcanic Ijen Plateau at Java’s eastern tip. Today, however, most coffee farmers are smallholders cultivating an average of 1.5 hectares, often clustered among West Java’s volcanoes—the region where coffee was first introduced to the island.
