Where on Earth is Sumatra?

• 11,000 ++ miles from New York City

• 32 ++ hour trip from New York City: 24 hours of flight &

transit time + 8 hours of driving to the coffee farms

• 12 hours time difference, on the opposite side of NY City

Arabica Producing Regions in Sumatra

Mainly in two regions:

1. Gayo

• Lake Tawar - Gayo Highland

• 3,300 – 4,600 ft above sea

• Gayo Tribe

2. Northern Sumatra

• Lake Toba - Barisan Mt

• 4,200 – 5,300 ft above sea

• Batak Tribe

• Dolok Sanggul Coffee is grown at that dot only

Dolok Sanggul Coffee Wet Process

Cherry Picking

Cherry

Depulping & Under Water Fermentation

“Gabah”

Sun Drying (40-50% moisture)

“Labu”

Sun Drying (~ 25% moisture)

Hand Sorted Green Beans

(10-12% moisture)

Specialty Roasters’

Roast Beans

Hulling / Parchment

Removal

Asalan Machine Sorting

Traditional Batak Tribe House

Dried Milk is Daily Delicacy

North Sumatran Delicacies

Water Buffalo Milk & Saksang Raw Fresh Water Fish – Naniura

Buffalo Dried Milk

Pork Inner Part & Blood

Local burial This picture below shows the monument burial of Batak people. The Batak tribe spends a lot of money, even it means having to borrow the money, to build these monuments for their parents and elders as a show of respect.

Coffee Cherries

Toba farmers with their plants

Home-made depulping

Sriwijaya’s associates at work

Dolok Sanggul local scenery

Scenery in Dolok Sanggul