Jokowi Meets Temanggung Coffee Farmers, Asks To Keep Red Petik

TEMANGGNG - 7th President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) met coffee farmers in Tlap Village, Kledung, Temanggung Regency, Central Java and asked farmers to continue harvesting red pick coffee.

"We are just dolan-dolan (playing), meeting the farmers only, there is no intention of anything," he said in Temanggung as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, December 19.

Jokowi asked farmers to take good care of coffee plants and also maintain the quality of the original Temanggung coffee, which is starting to harvest red pick.

Temanggung coffee farmer Tuhar said Jokowi advised farmers to always maintain the quality and productivity of plants, because it is possible that coffee prices will increase again.

"To create a quality coffee taste, there is indeed an SOP, not carelessly, to increase the farmers' products, we have to care for quality plants to produce coffee, so that coffee farmers have a bargaining value, but if the coffee farmers pick it carelessly, they will lose money, because they feel bad too, there are stages for that," he said.

Currently, coffee farmers in Temanggung are enjoying the benefits of the harvest. Given the high selling price of coffee at this year's harvest and yesterday's double increase.

"For robusta type coffee, which used to be Rp. 30,000 per kilogram, has now increased to Rp. 75,000 per kilogram, while for Arabica coffee it has increased from Rp. 65,000 to Rp. 70,000 to Rp. 150,000 per kilogram," he said.

According to him, the price increase has occurred since the harvest season in 2023 because the supply of coffee from Vietnam and Brazil which usually floods the market has decreased. Apart from being attacked by disease pests, in Vietnam farmers began to switch to durian plants.

Coffee plantations in Temanggung have an area of 14,500 hectares, consisting of 12 thousand hectares of robusta coffee, and 2,500 hectares of Arabic coffee, with an average harvest of 1.1 tons per hectare.