Indonesia – Team Pegasing 1KG

This washing station and farm belongs to Hendra and his family and is an island of specialty experimental processed coffee in the sea of conventional wet-hulled coffee that the area is known for. Hendra’s father, Hamdan moved to the area in 2006 from Banda Aceh and planted his land with coffee. His son Hendra started to work with his father in 2010 and began experimenting with washed coffees after researching old literature.

Hendra and the family have invested heavily in the farm, but more specifically in their post-harvesting facilities, where with some funding help, they have built a small wet mill with two pulpers, gravitational washing channels and several raised beds in large poly tunnels for drying the coffee. Hendra has continued to experiment and now produces around 8 to 10 different processes. The small washing station produces up to 40 tons of green coffee every year. The coffee is purchased from 70 farmers around the area who want to work with Hendra. They pick ripe cherry as he has incentivised them to do by rewarding good picking. If any farmers have travelled further to get to Hendra’s farm then they are paid extra for this as well. Hendra has also started a nursery where he is helping to grow the Abyssinia varietal that has was planted when coffee first came to Indonesia. He is working with local farmers to plant small plots on their land where he pays more for this varietal due to the reduced yield and higher cup quality.