![]() ![]() Today coffee is still widely produced in these northern regions of Aceh (Takengon, Bener Mariah) as well as in the Lake Toba region (Lintong Nihuta, Dairi-Sidikalang, Siborongborong, Dolok Sanggul, and Seribu Dolok) to the southwest of Medan. Following early success in Java, coffee was then introduced to Sumatra, initially to the northern region of Aceh around Lake Tawar. With Europe’s ever increasing thirst for coffee at that time, this commodity played an important role in the trade of Indonesia, as indeed it does today. ![]() Between 16 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted for their efforts more than 2.5 million tonnes of Asian goods. Indonesian coffee was planted in Sumatra by Dutch colonialists in the late 1600s under the guidance of the Dutch East India Trading Company – or Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC). ![]()
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