about Java Frinsa Estate
Java Frinsa Estate is owned by a couple, Wildan Mustofa who directs and oversees operational activities (farms and processing) and Atieq Mustikaningtyas who manages human resources and finances. Java Frinsa Estate grows, guides partnering farmers, collects, and processes specialty coffee at Bandung highland area, West Java – Indonesia.
Established in 2012, CV Frinsa Agrolestari was first built out of owners’ concerns of the condition of their homeland where landslides and floods are annual routines despites being located in a highland. Unwise agriculture practices being one of the main causes of it.
With those problems in mind, Wildan Mustofa and Atieq Mustikaningtyas looked for plants that could help with the said environmental problems, while also giving good yield. That is how coffee was chosen to be developed by them with Java Frinsa Estate as the brand.
The Wet-Hulled Process:
A coffee processing method where the coffee is fermented as wet parchment. Red and ripe coffee cherries are washed, pulped, and washed again from its mucilage. These pulped and washed cherries are called parchments. The parchments, then, are sun-dried until half-dry, hulled, re-dried, and sorted. This process originated from Sumatera, which has a very wet climate and has a hard time drying coffee traditionally. Therefore, this is an Indonesian Signature process. This process produces coffee that has a more prominent fruity character with a hint of earthy taste and heavier body.
