Most of Indonesia's Coffee Exports go to US

Jakarta (Antara Bali) - Most of Indonesia's coffee exports have gone to the US which is one of the countries that has high coffee consumption rate.

"Around 85 to 90 percent of our coffee exports are absorbed by the US market," an official of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade of the ministry of foreign affairs, Zulfikar, said at a press conference at the Indonesian Coffee Festival here on Thursday.

In 2012 his office recorded Indonesia's coffee exports reached 320 tons or increased by eight percent from last year.

He said the US is one of the world's biggest potential coffee market although that country is not among the world's biggest coffee consumers.

However "compared to other countries, the US is one of the biggest coffee consumer," he said. (M038)