"The exports from the region are still going on undisturbed as the exporters were still maintaining the contracts with the Japanese businesses until the next few months," spokesman for the Lampung Association of Indonesian Coffee Exporters and Industries (AEKI) Azischan Satib said here Tuesday.
He said according to information and media news, the worse of the quake was recorded at 8.9-magnitude, which triggered a tsunami in the eastern parts of Japan.
In the meantime, he added, Lampung`s coffee exports went mostly to Japan`s western regions like Tokyo.
Japan was one of the 43 destinations of Lampung`s coffee exports, and Lampung exported a great deal of robusta coffee to Japan.
Azischan, who is also chairman of the AEKI legal and arbitration compartment of Lampung said that Lampung`s coffee exports to Japan reached 50.976 million US dollars with a volume of more than 31,839 tons in 2010.
In the meantime, Lampung`s coffee exports in 2010 reached more than 392,619 tons worth 261.969 million dollars.
The foreign exchange revenue from robusta coffee exports in the period had dropped compared to in 2009 with 475.360 million US dollars and a volume of 342,313 tons.(*)
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