LONDON, KOMPAS.com - fragrant smell of coffee in the room
Cafe Die Rosterei, Monckebergstr, welcome guests on the show "Indonesian
Coffee Day" held Consulate General in Hamburg and the Indonesian Trade
Promotion Center (ITPC), in the main shopping area of the city of Hamburg.
The
event was held in commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Republic of
Indonesia and welcomed the Coffee Day 4th "Tag des Kaffees" Germany
is celebrated every year, according to a press statement received by the
Consulate General Hamburg Between London, Wednesday (7/10).
Gamelan music welcomed about 80 invited among Dean of Consular Corps Zarko Plevnik Consul General of Croatia, officials Protocol Senate Hamburg Wiebke HAUBOLD, Chamber of Commerce, the Employers' Association of Asia Pacific Gero Winkler, Director of the Coffee Association of German Holger Preibisch and Importer Coffee and administrators DIG and mass media local.
Consul General in Hamburg Teuku Darmawan expressed gratitude for the arrival of the invitation in the "Indonesian Coffee Day" which is meant to promote Indonesian coffee in Germany.
On that occasion, he also presented the development of the victims of the earthquake in West Sumatra and expressed gratitude to the German Government which gives a grant of three million dollars.
The German market is a very important market for Indonesia. Indonesian coffee favored in Germany, because it has a taste of its own peculiarities compared with coffees from other countries, he said.
Relations between Indonesia and Germany very closely and cooperation between the two countries can be enhanced in all fields, including economics, investment, environment and climate change.
While the coffee export businessman, benefactor Nur, explained the Indonesian coffee to the audience as well as information about opportunities for cooperation especially in the field of organic coffee.
Many small and medium Indonesian companies that require a partner to be able to meet the export standards that are certified as organic coffee producers, he said.
He said Indonesian coffee specification can be seen from the color of the coffee and the aroma and taste of each type of coffee through a variety of brewed coffee to taste.
Each invitation got a chance to taste the coffee Gayo of Aceh, Papua coffee, coffee Flores, Sulawesi Toraja coffee and Luwak coffee Sumatra. The "coffee tasting" gets a positive response. Most like civet coffee, because the taste and aroma of coffee is different from the other.
General in Hamburg also display Indonesian culture art form of dance, such as grouse dance from the island of Bali and the gamelan and traditional Indonesian songs.
On the occasion also screened a film about Indonesian tourism, and distributed brochures and leaflets on sights in Indonesia.
The event was appreciated in introducing the uniqueness of Indonesian coffee and coffee Indonesia is expected to import in Germany will increase in future.
German coffee imports an average of over 1 million tons per year and is the largest market in the whole of Europe and the German market is a very important market for Indonesian coffee.
Import coffee from Indonesia to Germany recorded 146 million euros in 2008 and in the last three years, imports of coffee in Indonesia shows the top five as a coffee supplier to the German market.
