Peatland Coffee: Potential Export Commodity from Dayak’s Land

Abstract

Coffee is one of Indonesia's leading export commodities which made Indonesia the fourth largest coffee exporting country in the world (Lisdayanti & Anwar, 2018; Sunarharum, Fibrianto, Yuwono & Nur, 2019). This is inseparable from the historical story of Dutch colonialism in the 17 th century where coffee seeds brought from Malabar (India) were planted on Java Island. They were of very good quality compared to those cultivated in Europe. Therefore, to meet the increasing demand for coffee from Europe, the colonial Dutch expanded the coffee plantation areas to Sumatra, Sulawesi, and Bali islands (Tim Karya Mandiri, 2018). In Kalimantan (aka Borneo Island), the coffee crop was introduced in the 1980s by Javanese transmigrants.