ID Food Is An Actor In The Farmer's Coffee Supply Chain To The International Level

President Director of Food Holding ID Food Frans Marganda Tambunan (right). (Photo: Doc. ID Food)

JAKARTA - Food SOE Holding ID Food plays an active role in Indonesia's coffee trade supply chain to the international level.

Through the holding member of PT Perusahaan Perdagangan Indonesia who is a member of the BUMN synergy coffee ecosystem in PMO Kopi Nusantara, ID Food supports the Government to advance a global competitive coffee ecosystem.

"ID Food continues to increase bilateral cooperation for coffee commodities with international coffee trading supplies," said President Director of Food Holding ID Food, Frans Marganda Tambunan in a written statement, Wednesday, September 7.

Frans said that his role was to play an active role in taking coffee from farmers throughout Indonesia and being marketed domestically and globally.

Until the first semester of 2022 through PT PPI has exported coffee regularly to Egypt as much as 237.6 tons or Rp. 7,144,110,864.

In fact, until the end of 2022, it is targeted to export 2,881 tons of coffee and will continue to be improved by developing it to various other export destination countries.

"Europe's next coffee export target, therefore at the coffee exhibition in the Netherlands, we also introduced coffees that we took off from Farmers' partners to improve the supply chain of coffee trade to the international level," Frans said.

According to Frans, this is in line with the direction of SOE Minister Erick Thohir that the Coffee Market can lift Indonesia's position as an important actor in the international coffee trade supply chain.

In addition, he continued, he can seek to marketing coffee with better added value so that export sales increase significantly.

Observing the export potential, Frans revealed that at the food commodity event in the Netherlands, ID Food also had the opportunity to attract the attention of local stakeholders in the Netherlands through the signing of an MoU with Esro Food Group B.V which is a Dutch company regarding exports and imports of products and/or commodities to meet needs in Europe.

"This collaboration is Business to Business (B2B) of food commodities between ID FOOD Group PT Indonesia Trading Company and Esro Food BV," concluded Frans.

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