Quits Job, Starts Mobile Coffee Shop

Ihsyan Fauzi quit his job as a doctor. Over the last two years, he has run a mobile coffee shop. Every afternoon, he drives around Takengon town in Central Aceh district, in his mobile coffee shop.

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Ihsyan Fauzi, owner of Gayo One Mobile Coffee.

In order to be free from the hands of powerful middlemen, coffee farmers in Aceh have sucessfully created their own markets. The coffee beans they produce from their own plantations are now processed into a variety of high-value products. This is the new era of the people’s coffee.

Ihsyan Fauzi, 41, quit his job as a doctor. Over the last two years, he has run a mobile coffee shop. Every afternoon, he drives around Takengon town in Central Aceh district, Aceh province, in his mobile coffee shop. He stops when he reaches a place with many people, and opens his mobile coffee shop.