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Ever wondered why some foreigners like to live in Indonesia? Well, maybe my list of TOP 10 best of living in Indonesia will explain. Here it goes.

1. Best coffee and tea in the world.

Cultivation of coffee trees in Indonesia started on Java in 17th century when Dutch first brought coffee to Batavia (city changed its name to Jakarta in 1942) and started export of the second oldest commercially produced coffee in the world – Java coffee. Ever since Indonesia has been one of the major exporters of coffee and today it is the world's fourth largest exporter. Majority of production is a Robusta coffee, but production and export of high quality Arabica coffee is slowly increasing. If you happen to be in Indonesia you can enjoy freshly roasted high quality coffee from Java, Sumatra, Aceh and other areas of Indonesia.

The founder of "Koffie Fabriek Aroma" at 78 years ago is Tan Houw Sian.  Before he started the bussiness in 1930, he had worked for a Dutch coffee producer.  In that decades, coffee bussiness competitions was centered on South American countries, Britain and Holland.  And the Dutchman had massive plantations in Indonesia.

Nowadays, Kopi Aroma (coffee aroma) bussiness is running by Widya Pratama, the only son of Tan Houw Sian, since he at 23.  Widya produces coffee just the way his father did, supervises every pack of the coffee and regulary inspect the coffee plantations in a number of different parts of the country (with total of 45 hectares in acre).

JAKARTA (JP):The government officially launched Visit Indonesia Year 2008 on Wednesday, with the main aim of luring up to 7 million foreign tourists and booking US$6.4 billion in foreign exchange income.