{"id":34366,"date":"2022-04-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/?p=34366&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=34366"},"modified":"2025-02-27T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:21:28","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-drink-luwak-coffee-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/why-you-shouldnt-drink-luwak-coffee-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"3 reasons why you shouldn\u2019t drink Luwak coffee in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At first glance you might think a luwak (<em>loo-wak<\/em>) is just an unusually long cat. Maybe even a raccoon? Perhaps even an Australian possum. One that somehow snuck aboard a tampa to Indonesia and accidentally found itself a long way from home. But the Indonesian luwak is quite different to any of these creatures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You see, this lithe-bodied, curious creature produces some of the rarest coffee in the world thanks to its love of eating coffee cherries. The beans pass through its digestive tract and presto, out pops a nugget of coffee. An average cup of \u2018kopi luwak\u2019 in <a href=\"\/bali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpil=\"url\">Bali<\/a> can set you back US$35 to US$80. The belief is that the digestive enzymes remove the acidity from the coffee beans, resulting in a smoother cup of joe.<\/p>\n<p>The time and expense of farming these coffee beans, plus demand fed by millions of curious tourists visiting <a href=\"\/indonesia\">Indonesia<\/a> each year, has helped drive up prices and support an unregulated industry with animal abuse at its centre. The reality is that if travellers saw how luwaks were being treated, they wouldn\u2019t buy a cup, no matter how cute the packaging was.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you enjoy a latte, long black, or old-fashioned espresso, here\u2019s why you should give luwak coffee a miss.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46719\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46719\" class=\"wp-image-46719 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_beans_Intrepid_Travel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_beans_Intrepid_Travel-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_beans_Intrepid_Travel-1-425x239.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_beans_Intrepid_Travel-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_beans_Intrepid_Travel-1-585x329.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luwak droppings with coffee beans before being processed. Photo by hedgehog111 (Shutterstock).<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>1. It\u2019s an abusive animal practice<\/h3>\n<p>In the wild, the luwak enjoys a rich and varied diet of insects, seeds and fruit \u2013 including papaya, pineapples and coffee. But coffee farming practices have created commercial luwak farms where the animals are forced onto a diet of coffee beans in order to maximise production. Restricting the luwak\u2019s diet to coffee fruit also results in nutritional deficiencies, which can cause health problems.<\/p>\n<p>Luwaks are also confined to cages for better use of space, and so camera-touting tourists can visit and watch them in action. The problem is that luwaks are naturally solitary creatures, and nocturnal. Holding them within close distance of each other, and keeping them awake during daylight hours for visitors, can cause them distress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/indonesia\/beautiful-bali-160411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED TRIP: SEE THE BEST OF BALI IN NINE DAYS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the problem was isolated to a few wayward producers, then it might be case of some bad apples spoiling the barrel. But in 2016, researchers from Oxford University and the London-based World Animal Protection assessed the living conditions of nearly 50 wild luwaks held in cages at 16 plantations on Bali. The report highlighted the inadequate living conditions and negative impacts on luwaks as a result of caged commercial production.<\/p>\n<p>The popularity of luwak coffee has also given rise to a variety of spin-off products that use other animals. like coffee beans produced from the poop of elephants, monkeys and even a variety of birds. By purchasing a cup of luwak coffee, you\u2019re also validating the mistreatment of other animals in the industry too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46757\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46757\" class=\"wp-image-46757 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_cherry_Intrepid_Travel-1.jpg\" alt=\"Luwak eating coffee cherries.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_cherry_Intrepid_Travel-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_cherry_Intrepid_Travel-1-425x239.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_cherry_Intrepid_Travel-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luwak_coffee_cherry_Intrepid_Travel-1-585x329.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luwak&#8217;s like to eat the best coffee cherries they can find. Photo by By Akkharat Jarusilawong (Shutterstck)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0px;\">2. You\u2019re not getting the real deal<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s easier than buying a farm and force-feeding a luwak coffee cherries? Buying regular coffee beans and passing them off as a \u201cpremium\u201d product! According to Nordic Coffee Culture, more than 80% of all coffee sold as Kopi Luwak today is fake. So that expensive coffee you\u2019re drinking is likely to be just a warm cup of placebo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpil=\"url\"><strong>SUBSCRIBE TO INTREPID\u2019S NEWSLETTER FOR TRAVEL DEALS, GIVEAWAYS, TIPS &amp; STORIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even if you did manage to track down some 100% authentic luwak poo, experts say that the commercial farming process creates an inferior product. Wild luwaks are able to pick and choose the best coffee cherries to eat, which results in only the best coffee beans being produced. It\u2019s difficult to replicate that process at scale when you\u2019re feeding luwaks any old coffee cherry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34371\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34371\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Caged_Luwak_Intrepid_Travel.jpg\" alt=\"Luwak in a cage. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Caged_Luwak_Intrepid_Travel.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Caged_Luwak_Intrepid_Travel-425x239.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Caged_Luwak_Intrepid_Travel-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Caged_Luwak_Intrepid_Travel-585x329.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The luwak coffee industry also legitimizes other animal products, like elephant dung coffee. Photo by My Good Images (Shutterstock)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>3. Certified ethical coffee is hard to find<\/h3>\n<p>So really, all you need to do to enjoy an authentic cup of luwak coffee is to track down a bag of ethically produced, free-range luwak coffee, right? The truth is that finding certified products is a challenge. The odds are that the coffee you <em>do<\/em> buy is more likely to be from a caged plantation rather than a wild luwak operation. That\u2019s not just in Indonesia, but around the world too. In 2013, a BBC undercover investigation revealed how coffee from caged luwaks held in inhumane conditions ends up labelled as wild luwak coffee in Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/adventures\/sea-communities-les-bali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED ARTICLE: HOW THE BALINESE SAVED A REEF AND THEIR COMMUNITY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), which the Rainforest Alliance and other well-known coffee certifiers use to issue their stamps of approval, banned coffee production from caged luwaks on its Indonesian farms in 2014. Similarly, UTZ Certified, the world&#8217;s leading label for sustainable coffee production, announced it will no longer certify producers using caged luwaks and other animals to produce coffee. This will hopefully put pressure on the luwak coffee industry to abolish abusive practices.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it allows customers to purchase luwak coffee from brands bearing Rainforest Alliance and UTZ certification with confidence, knowing that these companies aren\u2019t profitting from trapping, caging and mistreating wild animals.<\/p>\n<p>The hard part is just finding a certified bag of coffee. So next time you\u2019re looking for a morning pick-me-up in <strong><a href=\"\/indonesia\/ubud-to-seminyak\">Seminyak or Ubud<\/a><\/strong>, save your hassle and buy a cup of regular, locally sourced coffee instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ready to be delighted by beautiful Bali? <\/strong><a href=\"\/bali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpil=\"url\"><strong>Check out Intrepid<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>s range of trips there.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Feature image by\u00a0Bhakpong (Shutterstock).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a whole lot more to this &#8220;poo coffee&#8221; than meets the eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15847,"featured_media":46755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1313,47],"tags":[684,180,185,400,260,1753,61,263,385,582,292],"class_list":["post-34366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","category-responsible-travel","tag-advice","tag-asia","tag-bali","tag-coffee","tag-food-adventures","tag-food-guide","tag-indonesia","tag-responsible-travel-2","tag-south-east-asia","tag-southeast-asia","tag-wildlife","ipf_region-indonesia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 Reasons Why You Shouldn&#039;t Drink Luwak Coffee | Intrepid Travel Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Whether you enjoy a latte, long black, or old-fashioned espresso, here are three reasons why you should give luwak coffee a miss.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/why-you-shouldnt-drink-luwak-coffee-in-indonesia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 reasons why you shouldn\u2019t drink Luwak coffee in Indonesia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#039;s a whole lot more to this &quot;poo coffee&quot; 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