Food & BeverageIndonesian coffee shops tempt customers with mix of local, foreign beans
Abundant varieties spark experimentation as domestic output falls
Visitors at a Kopi Titik Koma cafe in Jakarta. Indonesia is forecast to be the world's fourth-biggest coffee producer in 2023-2024. (Photo by Devin Jimie)
RANDY MULYANTO, Contributing writer
December 17, 2023 14:01 JST
JAKARTA -- Indonesia is one of the world's top coffee producers with myriad varieties that embody the richness of its cultural, linguistic, ethnic and geographical complexity. Now, domestic purveyors of the drink are concocting a bevy of new brews, taking advantage of that abundance to attract customers.