REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDUNG -- Besides being famous for tea, West Java Province (Jabar) is also one of the regions famous as the best coffee producer in Indonesia. Because, various types of coffee in Jabar have an authentic taste and further enrich the variety of coffee in Jabar.

Coffee itself, which can enter Priangan, began in the beginning of the 17th century, precisely in 1677. At that time, the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) or chamber of commerce belonging to the Dutch people seized the territory of Western and Central Priangan in its expansion into the archipelago.

The first arabica coffee seeds were brought from India by the VOC to be planted in Priangan. At that time, the first arabica coffee seeds brought to the Sundanese Tatars were tried to be grown on the outskirts of the North Coast (Pantura) of Java that stretched from Batavia to Cirebon.

But as it turned out, the VOC's attempt to cultivate its first coffee seeds failed due to floods and earthquakes. Later, the VOC then brought its second arabica coffee seed in 1699 to the archipelago to try to plant it by shifting its cultivation site to higher plains. Cianjur was then chosen and eventually succeeded.