The Java Mountain Women’s Cooperative is situated South of Bandung, in West Java, Indonesia. Generally, much of the washed Arabica from Indonesia’s most populous island is produced in government plantations in East Java. Plantations like Blawan and Pancur are vestigial remnants of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) and their colonial coffee production practices. West Java was a major producer in the past, being one of the first areas used by the Dutch to cultivate coffee in the late 17th century. This area was devastated by the coffee leaf rust epidemic of 1876, and has only recovered production in recent years.