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Coffee festival to celebrate Indonesian coffee
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Jakarta Coffee Week (Jacoweek) 2016 will be held on Oct. 15-16 in Pantai Indah Kapuk, North Jakarta. (Shutterstock/-)
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Bunch of Caffeine Dealers (ABCD) School of Coffee will join forces with monthly weekend market organizer HYPE Pantai Indah Kapuk to hold Jakarta Coffee Week (Jacoweek) 2016 on Oct. 15-16 in Pantai Indah Kapuk, North Jakarta.
According to organizers, the event will “celebrate the coffee phenomenon in Indonesia”.
Aside from opening coffee shop booths and holding workshops and cupping events, the festival will also host two coffee competitions, the ABCD Latte Art Showdown 2016, which will feature 60 Indonesian latte artists, and the Battle of the Brewers-V60, a coffee brewing competition using a V60 dripper. The latter will feature 80 Indonesian coffee experts.
“We initiated Jacoweek 2016 so it could be a place for coffee enthusiasts to take part in developing Indonesian coffee,” founder and chief trainer of ABCD School of Coffee Hendri Kurniawan said in an official statement.
(Read also: Festival highlights challenges faced by Flores coffee)
Willy Kurniawan, chief executive of HYPE Pantai Indah Kapuk, said he hoped “relations between roasters, baristas, coffee owners and supporters of Jacoweek 2016 can produce good results for the advancement of Indonesian coffee.”
Organizers listed the importance of coffee to people’s daily lives and how people enjoyed visiting coffee shops as the two main reasons behind the creation of Jacoweek 2016.
Indonesia was the world’s fourth-largest coffee producer in 2014, according to data from the International Coffee Organization. (asw)
