Kopi the Book by au333

KOPI The Book

Aurelia

Aceh Gayo

Sul

Lampung Liwa

Sumatra Madheling

Java Ijen

Bali Kintaman

lawesi Toraja

Papua Wamena

KOPI

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Kopi and its Third Wave is a new movement, beginning 2002, to redefine coffee as an artisanal, fine food rather than a mere commodity. Among the younger generation, this has led to an increase of interest in all stages of coffee production, beginning from planting and harvesting, to every parties that are involved - be it growers, traders and roasters, to higher quality of roasting and brewing. Kopi project aims to connect two cultures the modern coffee cultures and traditional cultures by the means of design. Coffee from seven regions of Indonesia are collected and branded with none other than their own traditional identity : textile patterns.

Introduction

Kopi : the Book Kopi : the Book is more than just a guide book, or an introduction to the Indonesian culture. Made by coffee enthusiasts for fellow coffee enthusiast, it is a travelling companion for those who are willing, or are dreaming, to go the extra miles to the single originsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ..places of origin.

Part 1 : Kopi journal

Part 2 : Kopi / origins

Coffee tasting is a subjective matter, and every elements matter. Even as we write down the general tasting notes from our pool of sample, your own experience can differ greatly when you travel and taste the beans on the fly.

Within the mini detachable booklet you can find the (hopefully) perfect notebook that a coffee journeyman would need. Formatted in the size of a passport, the mini-journal can be easily be fitted into your tiny travelling pouch to note down anything that you find interesting : coffee tasting session, recipes, you name it.

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Aceh Gayo Spicy . Complex . Earthy Height : 900m - 1,700m above sea level Soil : Volcanic Processing : Wet hulling Acidity Body

The Green Beans of Gayo Compared to its neighbour, Mandheling

Gayo coffee comes from Gayo highland,

coffee, Gayo coffee is often described as

home of the Gayo people on the Bukit

having a higher, finer tone and a lighter

Barisan (the ring of Fire) mountain

body. It has earned the reputation as

range, which has a distinctive type of

a gourmet coffee and more recently,

soil. Coffee cultivation in there has a

â&#x20AC;&#x153;the green beansâ&#x20AC;? because of its

long run.

environmentally friendly plantation culture.

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Gayo Tribe

Kampung Gayo Gayo native people lives in small comunities (kampong) on the Gayo highland in Central Aceh. Majority of the Gayonese are Muslim. Culturally, they have some similarities with the neighbouring Batak Karo tribe from North Sumatra province.

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Umah Pitu The motif found in the Kerawang textile greatly resembles the decorative carving found ion Gayo’s traditional house, called Umah Pitu.

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Kerawang Gayo In the local language, “kerawang” means weaving. Kerawang Gayo represents the beauty of the bond between humans and the nature, as perceived by the Gayo ancestors.

/traditions Gayonese Weddings One of the most elaborate and important ritual of the Gayo Tribe is their Wedding ritual. One of the essential elements for the ceremony is, of course, the Kerawang Gayo.

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/dance Tari Saman The Saman dance is one of the Gayo tribeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pride. This internationally renowned dance requires high degree of synchronicity.

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Sumatra Madheling Spicy . Peppery . Earthy undertone Height : 762m - 1,524m above sea level Soil : Volcanic Processing : Wet hulling Acidity Body

Mandailing Coffee Madheling coffee is grown on the ancient

Madheling coffee is mostly processed

volcanic soil of Mount Leuser around

with the traditional wet hulling process

the legendary Lake Toba. Madheling, or

that retains roughly 50% of moisture and

according to the more accurate spelling,

thus results in its trademark rich, full

Mandailing, actually refers to an ethnic

body finish and intense flavour.

group, as with Batak, instead of a region.

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Batak Tribe

The Batak people Batak as a whole is a collective term used to identify a group of ethnic tribes from North Sumatra, believed to be descendants of a man named Si Radja Batak, a hero born on a holy mountain near Lake Toba.Mandailing Batak is but one of these sub-groups residing in the high rolling plateau surrounded by mountains.

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/crafts Magic Book Batak spirituality runs deep and their beliefs are expressed in many different craft and art forms. One of them is a folding book of their magic, written in Batak script, describing their prophecies.

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Tenun Ulos Mandailing Ulos is also known as South Tapanuli Ulos. Batak people believes that Ulos is one of three primary sources of warmth. Ulos means “blanket’. Every festivals of the Mandailing Batak people is accompanied with the gifting of Ulos. In general, Ulos represents warmth and its gifting is seen a deep loving gesture e.g. from parents to child.

/traditions Manual Production Ulos is precious especially because it’s weaved by traditional means, with manual loom machine. Material wise, Ulos is made of cotton and coloured with barks, gras, roots,

Sumatra Madheling

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Lampung Liwa Caramel . Chocolate . Sour undertone Height : 800m - 1,700m above sea level Soil : Volcanic Processing : Wet hulling Acidity Body

Liwa Civet Coffee Civet coffee is probably one of the most quirky trend in the history of Indonesian coffee. Fermented naturally in civet catâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digestion system, Liwa civet coffee has a unique taste like no other, which has elevated it to international fame.

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Orang Lampung

Lampungnese, also referred as Ulun Lampung, was originally a part of Banten Kingdom before they were annexed during the Dutch rule. Overtime, they developed their own unique culture, mostly around their weaving tradition using gold thread.

Bonded by weaving tradition

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/textile Palepai Palepai, or Ship Cloth, is another of Lampungnese’s textile tradition. It is said to represent the “ship of the dead”.

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Tenun Tapis Tapies weaved cloth is a traditional craft from Lampung. The oldest Tapis weaving is dated around 2 B.C. Weaving technique is passed down from generation to generation. It is normally used as ceremonial garments or part of important functions

/traditions Manual Production Ulos is precious especially because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weaved by traditional means, with manual loom machine. Material wise, Ulos is made of cotton and coloured with barks, gras, roots,

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Java Ijen Cedar. Cinnamon . Spices Undertone Height : 800m - 1,700m above sea level Soil : Volcanic Processing : Wet hulling or wet process Acidity Body

The Java In some countries, coffee in general is referred as Java, and it’s not without a reason. Java was the first region to grow coffee under the Dutch rule back in the 17th centuries, one of the oldest coffee plantation in the world and it has exported globally since. Calling coffee Java is akin to calling certain types of wine Champagne.

Java coffee is identic with strong coffee, since the majority of coffee plantation is dominated by Robusta variant of coffee, which has thicker and stronger taste. Most of Java’s plantation is centred in the Ijen region. Locally, they’re also known as Kopi Osing.

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Osing Tribe

The Osing tribe are the descendants of the ancient Kingdom of Blambangan in Banyuwangi, and it has quite a different background than most Javanese. In fact, historically they resemble Balinese people more than typical Javanese. This agricultural society also has their own language, distinct from Javanese language, and is known from their strong spiritual beliefs.

Java Ijen

/traditions /place Ijenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blue Flame The highlight of Ijen Mountain. This rare phenomenon can only be found at two places on Earth. Alaska, and Ijen.

Sacrifice to the Volcano As with any other great mountains, Ijen Mountain is greatly respected by the localsto a spiritual level. Every year, a festival is conducted to offer sacrifice to the Mountain God : a goat head to be buried at the volcano.

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Batik Banyuwangi Batik in Java are numerous, extremely diverse in motif and rich in symbolism. Beside being the closest to Ijen, Banyuwangi also carries one of the oldest Batik pattern in existence, the “Gajah Oling” motif. Gajah means elephant, the largest animal on land in Indonesian and Javanese, and Oling is associated with “eling” - remember, in local Javanese. The name Gajah Oling means that people has to remember their Great Creator.

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Bali Kintamani Citrus. Complex . Sweet Height : 800m - 1,700m above sea level Soil : Volcanic Processing : Wet hulling or wet process Acidity Body

Coffee and Citrus Most coffee farmers in Kintamani plant coffee as well as other fruits, such as oranges on the sae plantation. This affects the soil and the air, resulting in a fragrant coffee profile with hints of the fruits and very smooth finish.

Kintamani farmers also follow a certain code that ensures the quality of their beans. For example, most of them refuse to use pesticdicide on their farm.

Bali Kintamani

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Aga Tribe

People of the Mountain Aga translates to People of the Mountainâ&#x20AC;?. the tribe consists of people who refused the rule of the Hindu King in the Majapahit era by fleeing to the Mount Agung - Baliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sacred Mountain region, hence the name.

Bali Kintamani

/place Tenganan Pegringsingan Bali Aga people has a strong relationship with their village and their culture, which has been successfully preserved until today. They also has a great respect towards their textile tradition, Kain Gringsing, so much that its incorporated to the name of their village.

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Kain Gringsing The Gringsing cloth is made using a very unique dyeing technique called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;double ikat - double tied, the only one in Indonesial. Gringsing cloth originated from the Kintamani region since before Hinduism spread in the island. One of the most popular Gringsing cloth motif. The pattern represents the map of the village itself, symbolised by the symmetrical village guarded by four scorpions at each of its entrances.

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Sulawesi Toraja Earthy . Fruity . Dark Chocolate Undertone Height : 800m - 1,700m above sea level Soil : Volcanic Processing : Wet hulling or wet process Acidity Body

The nearly-lost Legend Toraja coffee is one of the most wellknown type of coffee in the region. During the war in the 1940s, production was shut down and the coffee became a lost legend within the community. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only until late 1990s when foreign investment revitalised the plantations and revived the lost legend.

Sulawei Toraja

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Orang Toraja

The ancient belief of life and death Torajan ethnic group have a very unique tradition in which they put equal, if not more attention to the dead rather than the living. Funeral rites are the central cultural point, and it can last for a whole week or more.

/architecture Tongkonan Torajan ancestral houses. Symboligically it represents links between ancestors to the living and future kin and traditionally decorated with Torajan patterns.

Sulawesi Toraja

/crafts Tau Tau Tau tau are basically wooden effigy, representations of the dead and guardians of tombs. Torajans believe that the dead takes their possessions with them to the after life, hence sometimes Tau tau carries those small possessions.

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Batik Sarita

/traditions Manual Production The original Sarita is hand written like most Batik.

Sarita refers to a very rare, ancient ritual cloth of the Torajan people. Traditionally, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painted using hot liquid wax and a bamboo brush. Sarita cloth is used in ritual, and is thought as the first thing that was brought down from heaven by the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ancestors.

However, demand for mass production in the colonial period led to the spread of silkprinted cloth and the death of traditional handdrawn method.

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Papua Wamena Intense . Fruity . Winey Finish Height : 1,400m - 2,100m above sea level Soil : Volcanic Processing : Wet hulling or semi-wahed Acidity Body

Baliem Blue Coffee Wamena coffee, known locally as Baliem coffee came from the same seedling as the famed Jamaican Blue Coffee, the second coffee to earn the title. This far eastern gem has a distinct and complex flavour - slight bitterness of nut mixed with the scent of herbs.

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Asmat Tribe

The Tribe from the Woods Asmat tribe prizes the rich natural resources in their home forests, from which they sustain their entire life. Traditionally, they live in tree houses, feast on starch from the sago palm and believe that the trees and the nature are sacred. They also honour their warriors, typically with various crafts and dances.

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/crafts Asmat Shield Asmat craft and cultures are very closely related to the natural environment. Wood carving, especially on tools and weapons thus become the primary craft. Most of Asmat design consists of things found in their forests.

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Batik Papua The Batik in Papua is distinctly different from other kinds of Batik from the western side of Indonesia. Taking clues and the aesthetic of the Asmat tribe one major tribe among many in Papua, it decorated with local symbols found in the nature and their sacred belief.

/traditions Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beauty Natural colourant used to dye the fabric is usually extracted from Pinang Palm that grows in the region. One of the dominant visual in the Asmat tribe.is the Cendrawasih bird is a species of bird unique to the Papuan land, and is considered sacred. Other motifs includes Tifa, a traditional musical instrument and Koteka, a traditional garment wore by warriors.

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