In the first half of 2025, Indonesia exported approximately 206,700 tons of coffee to global markets including the United States, the European Union, Japan, the Middle East, and several Southeast Asian nations. Deputy of the Ministry of UMKM, Bagus Rachman, highlighted that this export figure underscores the competitiveness of Indonesia’s MSME coffee sector on the international stage. Indonesia is recognized as one of the world’s major coffee producers, with over 90% of its plantations managed by smallholder farmers.
A standout example in these exports was 15 tons of specialty coffee from the Argopuro Walida cooperative in Situbondo, shipped to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a value of around IDR 3 billion. This success forms part of a broader strategy by the UMKM Ministry to develop a holding-model ecosystem for plantation clusters, integrating small, medium enterprises, and larger firms in supply chains. Through this model, medium enterprises act as operators managing four pillars: aggregation, incubation, marketing, and funding—designed to increase productivity, efficiency, and value added. The cooperative behind the Argopuro Walida specialty coffee has expressed its readiness to become an operator itself, aiming to link more farmers and expand market reach.
