![]() Nearly all of Indonesia’s principal islands grow coffees, and the differences between each are significant. Brazil north to south, Europe, continental US Indonesian archipelago, from Aceh Banda to Merauke in Papua The Pacific Ocean is massive, and its archipelago nations like Indonesia move people and products by land, air, and sea between their many islands and the cultures, climates, and traditions they contain. From Sumatra, the westernmost of Indonesia’s islands and the sixth largest island in the world, to Papua, the easternmost point of Indonesia sharing an island with Papua New Guinea, the distance is over 5,200km. The European Union, from Southern Spain to Northern Finland, covers around 4,200 km and Brazil, north to south, spans about 3,700 km. The 48 US states, as the crow flies from either Maine to Southern California or Washington state to Florida, cover about 4,300 km. ![]() These islands span more than 5,000 km from east to west. Sumatra is one of the 17,000 islands in the archipelago that comprises the country of Indonesia. ![]() Contextualizing the Sumatran supply chain, and the coffees produced by it, begins by understanding the scale of the Indonesian archipelago, one of South Asia’s population centers and the site of some of the world’s largest and smallest islands. In the case of Sumatra, those lessons are not so quick. ![]() Understanding coffee origins, both the topographical and ecological conditions that create terroir and the sociopolitical conditions that inform production infrastructure, often requires a quick history and geography orientation lesson. ![]()
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