A new generation is on the rise.

Located between Mount Sindoro and Mount Sumbing is the home of our javanese partners , Kojoyo cooperative and First Light coffee.

First Light coffee, founded by Cahyo Pertama, whose name literally translates to First light is a 31 year old entrepreneur that is leading the youth movement from Candiroto village in the Temanggung district. Coffee has been part of his family although his parents have been spice traders all their life. Originally this village used to have excelsa variety that never really made the cut making robusta this region’s native species. Although coffee wouldn’t be the first choice for many of the youth that are part of his group, finding jobs that could pay bills was getting difficult. More of younger members came together to discuss this and see how they could help themselves find stable alternatives. Since most of them had coffee in their family and it was evident demand for higher quality coffee seemed promising. 20 of them together with Cahyo decided to give specialty coffee a try out of which roughly 10 of them were first time coffee planters. Incomes from coffee allowed them to also improve their ‘image’ in the society, it was profitable and doing it together enabled access to knowledge, resources easily.

 
 

CULTIVARS


Robusta BP 30% Tugusari 70%

elevation


800-1100 masl for Candiroto Robusta

NOTABLE

Candiroto farmers are long term robusta farmers where now the new generation is taking over. So the farms, the yields, the professional angle of the farm management is being fostered by Cahyo in the community. Young people want to become a coffee farmers because it gives them good money and a good life.

 

PROCESSING

Java Candiroto Natural : Ripest of the red cherries are being picked and they undergo a submersion after which they pulped. Dry fermentation in plastic sacks for 2 days. Open air drying for 10 days, rest for 7 days. Hulled and sorted to export grade.

Java Candiroto Robusta Anaerobic Natural : Ripest of the red cherries are picked, cherry submersion and then pupled. For Tugusari, cherries are in Dry Fermentation in an anaerob tank for 5 days, while BP submerged fermentation in an anerob tank for 5 days to have body and preserve the sweetness. Open-air drying on raised beds for 15 days. Resting for 1 month, hulling and then sorting to export grade.

TASTIFY™ CUPPING NOTES
2025 harvest


ontosoroh - java temanggung candiroto robusta - honey
ontosoroh java temanggung candiroto robusta - hydro honey (Yet to cup)
java temanggung candiroto robusta - anaerobic natural
(Yet to cup )

 

  • The price you pay for Kojoyo’s Arabica/Robusta coffee p/kg. We agreed on this price directly with the farmers, disregarding the volatile US Coffee C price.

  • The above is the price of Sindoro Natural double fermentation Arabica. Wahyu and Cahyo buy cherries from farmers, process it to green beans by themselves. Farmers get paid for their cherries, this farm gate is inclusive of Kojoyo as well as Cahyo’s fee for processing, quality control, sorting, storing and transporting it to Jogja to Ontosoroh as green beans. Other coffees in this list and their farm gate are as follows :

    Sindoro Natural Hydro Fermentation (Arabica) : €9,43
    Candiroto Robusta Honey : €4,32

  • The above is the price of Sindoro Natural double fermentation Arabica. Ontosoroh buys green beans from Farmer groups and exports them to the Netherlands. They incur costs for transportation, warehousing, re-bagging, Final Quality controlling, Freight and customs. They travel to each origin atleast once a year to do harvest planning, share feedback and support with various innovations based on available market information.

    Candiroto : € 0.54

  • International shipping from Semarang, Java to Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is inclusive of freight, customs, insurance and warehousing costs.

  • Average financing cost owed to (mostly social) lenders. This ensures immediate payment to the farmers when the coffee leaves the farm or port.

  • A standard TSU premium on all coffees designated exclusively to accelerate farmers’ own regenerative agriculture project

  • This Side Up compensation for spending time and resources importing this coffee. Our work includes year-round contact with producers, managing export, shipping, import, warehousing, grading, sampling, finding and keeping roasting partners for Kojoyo. € 1,22 is This Side Up’s Model 1 markup. For a full overview of our modular margin construction, see the Trade Models page

Contact cahyo

Cahyo speaks a bit of English, is fluent in Javanese and Indonesian. He’s always keen to receive visitors and talk about coffee and special requests.

Ph :+62 858-7826-5388
Email : cahyo171717@gmail.com

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