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Farmers were paid in artificially low, fixed prices (often below production cost), while the VOC raked in 400% profit margins. When a blight or a volcano damaged a harvest, the penalties fell entirely on the locals. The result? Famine in the Cirebon and Priangan regions during the 1840s, where tens of thousands starved while Dutch warehouses overflowed with coffee beans. drama java
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True Java coffee—with its unique wet-hulled processing method ( Giling Basah ), which gave it a signature blue-green color and spicy, herbal notes—became invisible to the average drinker. The phrase "Just a cup of java" turned into a generic term for any coffee, much like "Xerox" for copies. For coffee purists, this loss of terroir was a slow-burning tragedy. Famine in the Cirebon and Priangan regions during