11 - Koperasi Ribang Gayo Musara - Indonesia 2023/24

I started being involved in the coffee industry in 2001, this was based on the fact that the majority of the people where I live work as farmers. The environment is also suitable for cultivating coffee plants. It started with my interest in the coffee harvesting process until finally I decided to cultivate my own farm.

I bought the farm from someone who had worked on it before, he sold it because he wanted to move out of the area. This is the third time I have participated in CoE with natural process coffee. Where in 2022 I will get 23rd place, in 2023 I will get 4th place.

The post-harvest process for natural coffee which is carried out after the process of picking red coffee is to process it directly so that the coffee is not damaged which can cause the quality of the coffee to decrease. After picking the red cherries, the sorting process is carried out to separate the perfect red coffee from coffee that is not yet very ripe, including any impurities involved. Then it is washed in a holding tank and separates the floating coffee. The next process is to air dry it for approximately 3 days in a greenhouse, then ferment it for 3 days, then dry it again to the desired moisture content.