Lampung - Civet Coffee Enchantment increasingly became a byword as a line of coffee that has a distinctive taste. Even Civet Coffee was once dubbed as the world's most expensive coffee.
Civet Coffee fame apparently also by Gunawan was arrested Confessing Way resident, Liwa Lampung Barat. Gunawan, who previously was a parking coordinator in West Lampung with a mediocre income, now after 3 years in the business of production and sale of civet brew their economy improves.
"I had previously had 17 years as coordinator for parking, it can only be made to eat alone. I finally eliminated," said Gunawan told detikFinance when met at his residence, Way Confess, Liwa, Lampung Barat, on Wednesday (06/10/2010).
Gunawan said had mastered parking locations in 7 markets in West Lampung, with the men up to 25 people. But over time, the profession was becoming displaced during perpakiran management taken over by the government.
Gunawan's fate was finally brought to mengakrabi Luwak coffee business. He tells the story of the beginning of his plunge in business Civet Coffee began when he was a walk in the market and attracted two animals weasel or mongoose. As a fan of animals he then bought two ferrets are with each of the price of Rp 50,000 per cow.
"I love that name Luwak Inul and Adam (dangdut singer)," he recalls with a laugh.
He explained that the introduction to business acquaintances Civet Coffee originated from a citizen requesting descent from Medan in cooperation. Task Gunawan ktika it only provides feedback to the two animals luwaknya coffee. The fellow is in a certain period to take and buy these civet droppings.
"Weasel I offered $ 1 million to him," he said.
Interval of 3 months he started walking suspicious of the movements of his partner who is not open. Previously, he only knew the reason for his purchase dirt Luwak Coffee is only for the drug. While the two luwaknya apprehensive because of too much coffee fed.
"I'm curious, because I do not understand the internet for help to find the solution on the internet by a friend about the civet droppings by a friend. I am amazed that in China there is information from Luwak coffee prices persetengah valued up to Rp 2.5 million pounds," he said.
Start since it was he thinking to develop Coffee Luwak by collecting as much as mongoose and 67 tails. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as he imagined because a lot of Civet are sick and eventually die, or even escape from the cage. Until now the number of mongoose that he had only a dozen left alone.
Civet name also had protruding into the most sought after animals at the time, whereas formerly known as Civet animal pests that interfere with farmers in the area of Liwa. The price also rose sharply to Rp 150,000 per head, at this time can be sold for RP 300-500000 per fish. According to Gunawan Weasel divided the various types of weasel months, weasels and pandanus trees.
"Weasel good for civet coffee is the pandanus and the moon. Civets not eat coffee tree, but the juice alone," he said.
He claimed to mongoose-mongoose that was alive was not easy to be fed. Through the process of learning self-taught he started to know the ins and outs of Civet including what foods he should give, when it's time, what kind of coffee you like civet.
"Food is like Civet other than the ripe red coffee, Luwak also like bananas, papayas until the snail, the coffee was the evening meal," he said.
For business mongoose food is also not easy, the article he was not yet have its own coffee plantation. So have to hunt to find coffee from farmer to farmer with a price of Rp 5000 per kg.
During this learning process she had to stay up to give feedback to the Luwak coffee at night. Gunawan said at the same time the neighbors began to many who are interested, even though it was musangnya not be relied upon to generate dollars.
"From there is a desire to ask the cooperation of the results. But I do not want direcokin," he said.
Gradually, his efforts began to be seen, although many neighbors menjalini same business he remained confident of success. At least this time could prove to be sufficient for his family everyday and be able to buy the car operations Trooper Jeep worth RP 40 million.
"People judge a lot of my success, and many emerging," he said.
He also admitted there are things that proud of Coffee product during Luwaknya reportedly been purchased for the presidential banquet. Before the fasting month some time ago, continued Gunawan, there are acquaintances of the military who bought it for entertainment purposes.
"I've used Coffee Luwak coffee morning for Mr. President SBY, then the number 4 Kg," he claims.
He said today in Liwa West Lampung robusta coffee harvest is over, and now is the season of coffee interlude. Coffee harvest period June-August, so the current decline of coffee production process, producers rely on existing stock.
Gunawan added at the time of high production in the form of coffee production luwaknya brenjel (un-processed form of manure) to 300 Kg per month. But when the coffee harvest season is not far below the real production of 100 kg per month.
"Now more selling powder, a month of sales of powder Rp 10 million per month, if sales brenjel still minimal," he said.
Besides producing luwaknya own coffee, he has partners with small-scale coffee producers by the amount of mongoose mongoose tail perorangnya 2-5. His role here as well as collectors or broker the sale for customers in Bandar Lampung, Bandung, Jakarta and others.
Civet coffee prices powder that he sold ranging from Rp 600,000 to 750,000 per kg depending on the destination. While Civet Coffee in the form of logs and dirt brenjel or sold RP 200-250000 per Kg temporal in the form of clean seed ready milled RP 350000-500000.
"I heard Luwak coffee prices in Jakarta in Grand Indonesia to Rp 2 million per kg," he said.
As is known Luwak coffee production boom in Liwa Lampung Barat at least has started bustling in 2007. At that time Luwak coffee began to be developed in incentives with the breeding patterns.
And Luwak coffee itself has been known in Dutch colonial times until the era of the 1950s. In those days it was known that the civet is a beast who likes to eat the coffee fruit is ripe and the farmers often pick up the droppings of civet coffee fruit in the wild with the belief coffees are the best coffee beans and has been through the process of fermentation in the stomach by mongoose natural.
