Organic Arabica Blog

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.

The Bailem Arbaica Cooperative set up in 2007, with the assistance from AMARTA USAID has enabled the cooperative to export the Organic Arabica Coffee from the Western part of New Guinea Island to the USA market since November 2009.

The Bailem Arabica Coffee, or commonly called in Indonesia as Wamena Coffee is the first commodity to be exported directly from West Papua, and the first Papuan native export ever done in West Papua history. (West Papua here includes Papua and Papua Barat provinces of Indonesia).

The Baliem Arbaica Coffee is exported to the global market, whereas Baliem Blue Coffee is a locally distributed ground coffee. People in West Papua today already getting used to drinking coffee.

Many events have been organised by the cooperative and also the cooperative attended many events organised by the governments or other business entities in Papua and Indonesia in general to introduce this coffee coming from traditional farmers far in remote highlands of West Papua.

It is of course, more expensive in comparison to what we call "un-organic" and "fake" coffee produced by big coffee companies in Indonesia, but we hope sooner or later, all Papuans will understand and appreciate that the coffee that is produced in their own land is organic, healthy and beneficial for their own health, and on the contrary consuming the "fake coffee" is actually dangerous to human/ consumers.

Organic Arabica coffee from West Papua called Baliem Arabica is now on sale at the first minimarket as well as the first 24-hour shop, and the first shop that is fully owned by Papuan natives at Jalan Raya Sentani, Hawai No. 05, Sentani Kota, Kabupaten Jayapura, Provinsi Papua, Indonesia.

PAPUAmart.com is the first mini-market serving the people 24-hour, and the first minimarket owned fully by Papuan native, and the minimarket that was set up and owned by the Organic Arabica Cooperative farmers who live far in remote villages of Western New Guinea.