Ijen Lestari CM Nat

The Origin Ijen Lestari

Ijen Lestari founded by Dandy in 2016, located on the slopes of Mount Ijen, East Java The average farm size is three hectares. Lestari means sustainable, he also hoped to create employment and to empower the local people in order to improve their social welfare, self-subsistent coffee processing, and sustainable local employment.

Dandy’s passion for specialty coffee was ignited during his college years, propelling him to delve deeper into the intricate processes of coffee harvesting and production. His extensive visits to various coffee farms not only acquainted him with Java’s unique coffee-growing regions but also illuminated areas where the cultivation and processing methods could be refined.

Armed with this insight, he took the bold step of establishing a washing station, committed to elevating the quality of coffee in the region. Over more than six years, Dandy diligently cultivated arabica coffee in the picturesque Ijen region, earning both local and global recognition for his contributions to the Indonesian coffee industry.

The processing starts after picking the ripest cherries, then they put them inside the fermentation tank and macerate the cherries with carbon dioxide for 3 days. Then they move the coffee to a drying bed and let it dry until it reaches 11-12% moisture content.