9 Days 8 Nights Multatuli Coffee Odyssey

Tour Highlights 

• Learn about Douwes Dekker; his works, workplace, residence during the colonial time in Indonesia, Multatuli Museum in Rangkas Bitung (Banten).
  
• Learn about the history of Dutch quest for spices during the Age of Discovery, places related to the Dutch trade, the V.O.C. (United East India Company); Old Banten, Sunda Kelapa Harbour, Fatahillah Square.
  
• Learn and understand about coffee-culture system (coffee cultivation) from the cultuurstelsel point of view, a system considered harsh, unjust, and unfair, by the locals. The word “cultuur” was used in the V.O.C.-period in the French sense of “culture” being especially the cultivation of the land. There was coffee-culture, pepper-culture, etc. and the servile services in these “cultures” were called “cultuur-diensten”. The “Cultuurstelsel” of Van den Bosch was a system of government cultures, the produce of which served to provide tributes to the mother country (The Netherlands).
  
• Learn and understand about the cultivation of coffee, entire process and life-cycle of coffee, from planting to roasting, on location at Gambung coffee plantation near Bandung.
  
• Learn and understand about the indigenous people of Baduy (Kanekes) in Banten.
  
• Visit other places of interest which have educational values; Indonesia Bamboo Foundation in Bogor, Bogor Botanical Garden, tea plantation and processing in Puncak, Museum of Geology in Bandung, Bosscha Astronomical Obesrvatory in Lembang etc.