Baliem Blue Coffee is Baliem Arabica Coffee

Baliem Blue Coffee is Baliem Arabica Coffee. Yes, it's popular name is Baliem Arabica, but its trade-marked name is Baliem Blue Coffee. The name Baliem Arabica became popular in West Papua (Indonesia's Papua and Papua Barat Provinices) since the Baliem Arabica Cooperative was set up, replacing the previous coffee producing cooperative called Kopermas (Koperasi Peranserta Masyarakat) that was set up by Barnabas Suebu as the governor at that time, in cooperation with the Indonesian Police in the region.

Many Kopermas was set up to invite local communities to get involved in the project under the control of the government agencies. However, even though the project failed, despite it had spent enormous amount of money.

Baliem Blue Blue Coffee became popular among coffee lovers in West Papua since the cooperative participation in provincial and regencies' Cultural Festivals that are widely held in various places in the two provinces. The first cultural festival the cooperative attended as the Sentani Lake Cultural Festival held at Kalkhote, Sentani Timur, Jayapura, Papua. Another important Cultural Festival that the cooperative annually and officially invited to participate is the Baliem War Festival as the first Cultural Festival being held in Papua Soil by the Indonesian authorities.

We foresee this Baliem Blue Coffee will become as famous as her Elder Sister, the Jamaice Blue Mountain Coffee.

The Chair of the Baliem Arabica Cooperative, Ev. Selion Karoba, S.Th, always prays that one time, he will visit Jamaica and will talk to the owners of the world's famaous Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and afterwards invite them to come to West Papua and see our story from this end of the world.