23/02/2019
In 1706, when coffee grew slowly on Java, by the Dutch government, the coffee seeds that grew on the banks of the Ciliwung, were sent to the botanical garden in Amsterdam for research, which resulted in good quality coffee.
Fifteen years later, or more or less in 1711, the Regent of Cianjur, Raden Aria Wira Tanu III, shipped about 4 quintals of coffee to Amsterdam, and the initial coffee export broke the auction price record there. In 1714, King Louis XIV of France, asked for seeds of Coffea arabica var. Arabica or referred to as Coffea arabica L. var. typica which is hereinafter referred to as typika of the mayor of Amsterdam Nicolaes Witsen. This is because the French king got the fact that Coffee from Java island got the highest price at an auction in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. So he wanted the coffee variety to be part of the Jardin des Plantes botanical garden in Paris, France.Javanese coffee seeds in the Jardin des Plantes botanical garden were brought by French naval officers to Martinique, one of the French colonies in the Caribbean.
In 1726, no less than 2,145 tons of coffee originating from the island of Java, flooded the continent of Europe, defeating Mocha coffee from Yemen which had previously been the ruler of the market. And because of that, coffee originating from Java Island began to be known as Java Coffee
The seeds given by Nicolaes Witsen, originally grown on the banks of Ciliwung, such as Kampung Melayu and Jatinegara or formerly known as Meester Cornelis, which was the initial area of coffee plantations on Java, where the seeds were brought by Dutch from Sri Lanka.
In addition, in the early 1720s, the Dutch also sent Javanese coffee seeds to Suriname, because they were tempted by the high price, to open a plantation there. Of the two places, Javanese coffee seeds spread to Central and South America. The footsteps are seen in Latin America, namely in Ethiopia. There are typics who now have the Blue Mountain brand planted in Jamaica and Geisha or Gesha, where the name refers to the name of the coffee-producing hamlet in Ethiopia that grows in Panama.
