Coffee = Indonesian, Dutch

In the process of popularizing coffee to the whole world, the Dutch have spared no effort! Since the end of the sixteenth century, when Venetian merchants resold coffee all over Europe, the Dutch, unwilling to be reduced to second-hand dealers, have deliberately tried to grow their own coffee. Nicholas of Amsterdam in 1696. Nicolaas Witson was the first to suggest to his superiors that coffee should be grown at Kedawoeng Estate on Java, a Dutch colony at the time, but failed. Three years later, another guy named Henriques. Henricus Zwaaydecroon succeeded in growing coffee on Java, and developed the later famous [mocha-Java] coffee. Coffee cultivation continued to spread to Sumatra, Bali and Selebus in Indonesia, where it has grown to become the third largest coffee producer and exporter in the world.

Today Indonesia produces Java, Mandheling, Ankola, Kopi Luwah, also known as civet coffee, all of which are world famous.

The Dutch also tried many times to introduce coffee growing technology to France. In 1714, the Dutch transported a 1.5-meter coffee tree from Amsterdam to Paris, dedicated to Louis XIV, then France. The tree was planted in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris at that time. Louis XIV was the first European monarch to drink coffee at that time.