Indonesia - Ijen Highlands

About this coffee

Kevenka was formed by two entrepreneurs brother Kevin & Kenny Soewondo who are from Surubaya in East Java. They initially started in coffee by opening a cafe in Surubaya and then realised they could roast themselves they opened a roastery. This soon led to them being inquisitive about the supply of green coffee they received and led them to start processing green coffee themselves from the highlands in and around Mt Ijen to supply their roastery. The next natural step was to start selling green coffee in the expanding internal specialty market as well as exporting coffee. In recent years they have been renting old processing facilities that were previously used for rice processing and drying and turned this into their processing centers at the bottom of Mt Ijen. Kevin Soewondo has travelled to Colombia to undertake the Q porcessing level 3 qualification to enhance their knowledge and improve their processing.