Coffee commodities from West Bandung Regency are increasingly penetrating foreign markets. One of the farmer groups that has exported coffee is Java Halu Farm. The group processes coffee from the Gununghalu and Sindangkerta areas. The Head of the West Bandung Regency Food Security and Agriculture Department, Lukmanul Hakim, said that Java Halu Farm, also known as Java Halu Coffee, exports its products to Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia, and several Asian countries (Japan and Vietnam).
In 2026, Java Halu coffee products were also sent to Australia with a total order of 3.8 tons, Japan 2 tons, and Vietnam 10 tons. For this reason, the West Bandung Regency Food Security and Agriculture Department provides a number of supports. “Capacity building for farmer members. Coffee drying facilities and coffee processing tools,” said Lukman when contacted by “PR” on Friday, June 26, 2026. Not only Java Halu Farm, coffee from other farmer groups in the West Bandung Regency area also reach international markets. The Ranting Estate Cikalongwetan farmer group (Poktan), for example, exports its coffee products to East Asia. Meanwhile, Poktan Global Makmur Lembang exports to Germany.
History of coffee
The history of coffee in the Bandung or West Java region has stretched for a long time. In the book Priangan written by Andries de Wilde, coffee cultivation in Bandung had already been taking place in the 19th century. “The view from the capital of this Bandung Regency to the surrounding mountains, everything looks cultivated to a fairly high level, namely coffee cultivation and rice fields that look rising like a giant amphitheater, very charming and presenting a harmonious natural painting between the sublime and simple nature,” wrote Andries in the book first published in 1829. The English explorer, Charles Walter Kinloch, who also had the opportunity to visit Bandung during his wanderings in Java in 1852, described Bandung as a comfortable area with views of coffee plantations in its village areas.
“Each plantation is fenced with a tight hedge of red hibiscus plants, which in this place grow very fertilely,” Charles wrote in his book, Rambles in Java: Pengembaraan Di Tanah Jawa. Andries also noted the coffee transportation routes in the past that still used boats. Andries De Wilde described the coffee transportation route towards Batavia which crossed the Citarum River with the Bayabang to Cikao route in his book, Priangan published in 1829. Bayabang, the name of a place on the border of Bandung and Cianjur, has now disappeared after being flooded by the Cirata Hydroelectric Power Plant. Meanwhile, Cikao in the Purwakarta region bears witness to the existence of coffee storage warehouses of the past.***
