Persatuan Petani Kopi Gayo Organik (Gayo Organic Coffee Farmer’s Association or PPKGO) is a 1400-member farmer's cooperative working in 24 communities of the Gayo Highlands of Sumatra. PPKGO is headquartered in Aceh, the Indonesian province continually devastated by earthquakes and tsunamis.

This region is renowned as the largest producer of Arabica coffee in Southeast Asia, as well as the ceaseless civil war between Acehnese separatists and the Indonesian military. American investment in this area has otherwise been limited to the embattled Exxon Mobil Oil Co. and natural gas facility in Lhoksemauwe.

PKGO currently produces 1,500 tons of coffee and is Indonesia’s only Fair Trade and Organic Certified coffee cooperative. Conscious Coffees has been supporting this cooperative since the first harvest became available and we’ve worked directly with to improve the cup quality of their coffee. We have been experimenting with several processing and preparation techniques expanding our ability to offer several types of coffee from PPKGO. We currently import traditional un-washed as well as semi-washed, washed, and decaffeinated lots. Each variety is unique and has a variety of applications in our blending practices. Our decaf continues to be one of the highest scoring decaf coffees available each year.

PPKGO includes members of Gayo, Javanese, and Acehenese ethnic groups and various religions, including Christians. This diversity has strengthened the cooperative which is an incredible feat in the midst of such intercultural and now economic strife in the region.

We consider Sumatra not just a coffee source, but more importantly home to our producer partners, their families, and the communities and organizations they have constructed.