Today I bring you a conversation with an extraordinary producer: Rani from Java Halu in Indonesia. I do not use this word lightly. Rani is a truly exceptional person and my new coffee crush.

I met her because she was the only woman who attended FTC Indonesia in June. Each previous FTC has been minimum 50% female, this is very important to me because so many coffee spaces are still very male dominated. 

During our plan for FTC Indonesia, I handed over many of the logistics to the Bandung Coffee Exchange team. It was only after 23 tickets were sold that I looked at the roaster and saw 22 males and 1 female. 

I thought this might make Rani a bit shy but I couldn’t have been more wrong. In this episode we talk about:

• How her past influences her present
• how she developed her business acumen
• turning waste into new money
• civet coffee without civets
• the contradiction of “specialty wet-hulled” coffee
• why women are important to the sucess of her business
• the importance of getting research out of the lab and into the farms

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