coffee- Indonesian style

Kopi (the Indonesian word for coffee) Luwak comes from the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi. But it's not strictly the exotic location that makes these beans worth their weight in gold. It's how they're "processed."
On these Indonesian islands, there's a small mammal called the paradoxurus, a tree-dwelling animal that is part of the sibet family. Long regarded by the natives as pests, they climb among the coffee trees eating only the ripest, reddest coffee cherries. Who knows who first thought of it, or how or why, but what these animals eat they must also digest and eventually excrete. Some brazen or desperate -- or simply lazy -- local gathered the beans, which come through the digestion process fairly intact, still wrapped in layers of the cherries' mucilage. The enzymes in the animals' stomachs, though, appear to add something unique to the coffee's flavor through fermentation..

So a very simple way to say this – it’s animal butt coffee.

I ‘v been given a bag of this coffee from my principal (should I be concerned???). It’s instant, so I don’t know if it taste any better when you pay $75.00 per quarter pound back home, but it’s not that good.A dear sweet friend of mine just sent me some coffee and filters from home. Although they do not have coffee pots here, I have a plan! Will keep you posted on my coffee brewing success