Jakarta, May 15 -- Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan stated that Indonesia is focused on increasing domestic coffee production, with the goal of overtaking Vietnam as the world's second-largest coffee producer.

With annual coffee production exceeding 700 thousand tons, the minister noted that Indonesia currently ranks fourth globally and believes this figure can grow significantly with the right strategies in place.

"Currently, the price is very favorable, so we need to increase productivity," he stated at the opening of World of Coffee Jakarta on Thursday.

He explained that the strategy to increase productivity includes using better quality seedlings, improving post-harvest processing, and adopting more competitive packagi...