Bandung (Antara Bali) - PT Morning Glory, West Java producer and processor of coffee known as Java Preanger Coffee, will be exporting a container or 18 tons of coffee to the Netherlands shortly.
"This year we are exporting 18 tons of the commodity to Holland," owner and coffee processor PT Morning Glory Coffee International, Nathanael Charis, said after giving a token of appreciation to five coffee growers and processors in Bandung on Sunday.
Nathanael said his company has been exporting Java Preanger coffee since 2009. "In 2009, it was the first time that we exported one container of the coffee to Australia, and in 2011 we also planned to export the commodity but failed because of rains," he said.
He said since the past few centuries, the West Java coffee had always been awaited in the world.
This, he said, was proved when each ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) docked in Java Island, the coffee they brought became the main commodity besides spices and some other commodities.
"It was there that Priangan coffee, then known in Europe and in some other parts of the world as Java Coffee or Java Preanger Coffee," he said.(*/T007)
