with heart, from the highlands of sumatra

Tasting Notes

Kopepi Ketiara

Inspiring Entrepreneurship

The Ketiara Cooperative is a thriving collective of more than 1,500 smallholder farmers led by founder and chairwoman Ibu Rahmah — 1,100 of them women — located in the Gayo Highlands of western Sumatra. Ibu Rahmah began as a farmer herself and started the cooperative to create financial opportunity for herself and her community.

Founded to empower women and protect the region’s local ecosystem, the Fairtrade International co-op is a leader in regenerative, shade-grown farming and gender equity in coffee.

Since our partnership began in 2014, the co-op has tripled in membership and yield—proof of what’s possible when community, the environment, and quality grow together and the strength of a coffee bean.