REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LAMPUNG -- President Joko Widodo harvests coffee with farmers in Kembahang Village, Batubrak District, West Lampung Regency, Lampung Province, on Friday (12/7/2024). During his visit, the President stressed the importance of increasing Indonesia's coffee productivity, which covers an area of about 1.2 million hectares of coffee plantations throughout the country.

“We have 1.2 million hectares of coffee both robusta and arabica throughout Indonesia. In West Lampung, the largest is 60,000 hectares, but indeed, almost 90 percent of it is robusta, arabica is about 10 percent,” Jokowi said in his official statement, which was quoted on Sunday (14/7/2024).

According to the Head of State, although coffee prices fluctuate, but on an annual basis they tend to rise and export demand also continues to increase. For this reason, the President encouraged Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman to pay attention to coffee commodities.

“This is what I just told the Minister of Agriculture to pay attention to coffee. The most important thing is that its productivity per hectare should go up,” he explains.