Toraja

Toraja is Sulawesi's main high-altitude arabica area, in the mountainous Tana Toraja and North Toraja regencies, commonly traded through Kalosi.

Toraja is the primary high-altitude arabica-growing area of Sulawesi, covering the Tana Toraja and North Toraja regencies in South Sulawesi, where the terrain runs from about 150 m up to 3,083 m. Coffee is commonly traded through the town of Kalosi, and Sulawesi coffees are described as clean, with nutty or warm-spice notes such as cinnamon or cardamom.

The Torajan people build distinctively shaped houses and maintain ancient and complex rituals related to death and the afterlife, and this respect for tradition is also found in how smallholders process their coffee, using giling basah (wet hulling).

A specialty exporter puts Toraja arabica at 1,400-2,100 m, with the harvest peaking from May to September. Coffee is mostly semi-washed and wet-hulled, with some fully washed lots, and the cup is described as warm spice, cocoa and dried fruit over a full, creamy body with low to medium acidity. Growers are mostly smallholders with plots of a few hectares, intercropped with spice trees and food crops.