Indonesia Overview
It is a Southeast Asian country and its official name is the Republic of Indonesia. Indonesia, the largest island country in the world, occupies a land area of 1,904,569 square kilometers consisting of 17 thousand islands located in Oceania, the Indian and Passive Oceans. Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, which consists of large and small islands such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sılawesi, and New Guinea.
A Brief History of Indonesia
The first human remains, called "Jawa Man" among the people, date back to 500.000 years. The region, where Chinese and Indian influence was observed until the 7th century, developed with the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism in the 7th century. In the 13th century, the first traces of Islam began to appear on the island of Sumatra. By the 16th century, Islam became the dominant culture on the islands of Java and Sumatra. With the peak of Dutch ineffectiveness, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was established and became the dominant trade actor in Europe for 200 years. Dutch influence, which lasted until World War II, ended with the invasion of the islands of Japan. Indonesia, which took the first steps of independence together in 1945, regained independence in December 1949, despite the efforts of Holland. it is. Indonesia, the 4th most populous country in the world, is the country where the world's largest Islamic population lives.
Geography in Indonesia
It is the largest archipelago country in the world consisting of 17504 islands, stretching 5120 km from east to west and 1760 km from north to south. Geographically, they are islands and islets scattered on both sides of the Equator line. Having land borders with Burneo and Malaysia, Indonesia also has maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Palao, and Australia.
Climate in Indonesia
Indonesia stretched along the equator line; it is almost the same throughout the year. It can be divided into wet and dry seasons. It can be defined as the dry season between May and October and the wet season between November and April.
Coffee Production in Indonesia
Coffee cultivation, which started in the high plateaus of the West Java island with the influence of the Dutch in the 17th century, made Indonesia one of the countries that produced and exported the best coffee in the world. Today, coffee cultivation is carried out on an area of 1.24 million hectares in Indonesia. While Robusta is cultivated in 933 thousand hectares of this, high-quality Arabica agriculture is carried out on 307 thousand hectares.
Besides normal coffee production, Indonesia also produces a variety of specialty coffees. The most famous of these specialties is Luwak coffee (kopi luwak), Toraja coffee, Aceh coffee, and Mandailing coffee. The first - Luwak coffee - is probably the most famous type of coffee known as the world's most expensive coffee. It is brewed with beans passing through the digestive system of the Asian palm musk tree (cat-like animal). It is believed that this coffee has a richer aroma and flavor due to this special formation process in the animal and the ability of musk to choose the sweetest coffee cherries. The labor-intensive production process and its scarcity in the international market cause its expensive price.
