cARING FOR OUR COFFEE'S FUTURE

Indonesia's coffee is some of the best in the world, but several limitations have prevented it from gaining the reputation we believe it deserves; crop competition, low prices, and lack of infrastructure have taken farmers to mainly produce commodity or no coffee at all. Enrekang is no exception. It has been mostly ignored and forgotten; ignored by the market, overlooked by its farmers, but not by all. Yolan Tirta wondered what could happen if the future of specialty coffee was secured; could this become a reliable source of income for farmers? What other steps could he take to secure this future? In 2010, he did the transition to specialty coffee in the region, and started planting varieties. So far, they've invested in drying domes, mills, and warehouses for their farmer partners.

CULTIVARS

S795

elevation

1600-1850 meters above sea level.

NOTABLE

This is a family enterprise initiated by Yolan Tirta, who is a new generation farmer that believes in the future of specialty coffee. They’ve invested in drying domes, a mill, and warehouses for their farmer partners.

PROCESSING

Fully Washed: cherries are harvested at their ripest point, pulped that same day, and transferred into a washing station where coffee is fermented under water for 14 days. Coffee is then dried on racks under a closed roof hut.

Anaerobic Natural: cherries are harvested at their ripest point, stored in anaerob bags for 4-6 days, or until there is hint of banana flavour. They are then dried in a closed air drying hut for 24- 27 days.

TASTIFY™ CUPPING NOTES

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The price you pay for Gowa Malino honey coffee p/kg. We agreed on this price directly with the farmers, disregarding the volatile US Coffee C price.
Farmers deliver cherries to the group and are paid for it. The group then processes the coffee and delivers it as unsorted green beans to Ontosoroh which is then sorted to export grade at Yogyakarta. he farm gate cover the costs of producing the coffee which includes farm management year around, labor and fertilizers and processing until unsorted green beans stage.
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.
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 Gowa Malino. € 1,22 is This Side Up’s Model 1 markup. For a full overview of our modular margin construction, see the Trade Models page