To this day most of the coffee grown in Indonesia is Robusta. It was initially brought to Java, obviously, but spread across the islands that were ideally suited to coffee growing. Though it didn’t reach the highlands of Sumatra until 1888.Ĭoffee leaf rust decimated the Arabica coffee plantations of Indonesia and they were replanted with Robusta, which is much more disease resistant than the Typica Arabica variety that had initially been brought to the islands. Sumatra coffee history starts in the 1600s when coffee was brought to Indonesia by the Dutch. Sumatra is the westernmost island of Indonesia and is nearly perfectly bisected by the equator.
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