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Koperasi Surya Abada Kayumas (Kayumas for short) was established in 2008. The production members come from two different villages, Kayumas and Taman Dadar, mainly from the Javanese and Madura minorities. They currently have 150 members, 59 of whom are women. They continue to add new members every year, including 30 new producers in 2019. Coffee is harvested from March to August and the rainy season from September to March, although the weather, especially rainfall, is becoming increasingly unpredictable. The first rain of this year (2018) did not appear until November 5, five weeks later than the previous year. Because of the ever-changing weather, Kayumas began to grow other economically diversified crops, such as avocados, cloves, jackfruit, durian, and collecting honey from wild bees.

Each farmer has an average of 2 hectares of land, with a total of 1500 trees. Members usually produce 5-6 tons of cherries per hectare. The expanding area is remote, about a seven-hour drive from the nearest airport in Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city. The farthest farmer lives 14 kilometers away from the cooperative. During the harvest, each farmer takes their cherries to one of the three centralized pulping and fermentation areas. The coffee is fermented for 24-36 hours and cleaned with a mechanical desizing machine after fermentation. Then dry it to about 40%. Then the coffee tarp, once the moisture reaches 20%, will be brought to the industrial center near Sidoarjo, where PT Indokom (principle buyer and exporter) will dry to 13%, coffee maker, ready to go to Surabaya, Port East Indonesia Island Coffee.

Kayumas received their Rainforest Alliance (RFA) certification in 2010 and became the first organization to pass Java Fair Trade certification, exporting their first FT shipments in 2018. Cooperatives are very pleased to have obtained Fairtrade certification. The process itself brings communities closer together and provides funding for new infrastructure, such as opening up a road to the farm to make it easier and safer to harvest and transport cherries, as well as funding for the planting of new coffee seeds. Fairtrade certification also encourages young people to stay in the community and continue to produce coffee because it greatly improves the financial standard of families.

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