SOE Minister Erick Thohir officially inaugurated the opening of Coffee Market exhibition staged by Roemah Indonesia BV and the Project Management Office (PMO) of Kopi Nusantara at Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Saturday (3/9/2022). Minister Erick Thohir said that the Coffee Market aims to improveIndonesia's position to become an important players in the supply chain of Indonesian coffee trade at the international arena. In the event, Erick said, Indonesia brought samples of more than half a ton with 97 types of coffee, ranging from green beans to derivative products. Erick said that SOEs fully support the revival of the national coffee industry. He demonstrated this in early 2022 by launching the Kopi Nusantara Project Management Office (PMO) initiative.This step is taken to increase the productivity of domestic coffee through Makmur program scheme which has been implemented for other commodities, such as rice, sugarcane, and corn. The purpose of PMO Kopi Nusantara, said Erick, is to improve the coffee business ecosystem from upstream to downstream. Meanwhile, the initial transaction value is USD 5,6 million which consists of USD 2.5 Million purchasing contract and USD 3,1 Million MoU.
Erick said that the European Union is recorded as the largest consumer of the world coffee, reaching 2.4 million tons per year, or 24% of the total world coffee consumption. That is also one of the reasons why the Coffee Market event was held in Amsterdam. In the last 10 years, Indonesian coffee industry has experienced a significant growth, reaching as high as 250%. Now Indonesia ranks as the fourth largest coffee producers. This superior commodity has become the third largest foreign exchange earner after palm oil and rubber.
