Indonesia Take Cokelat Festival in Belgium

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Indonesia Take Cokelat Festival in Belgium


Indonesia as the third largest exporter of cocoa beans and chocolate to the world, participating in Cokelat Festival in Belfort Brugge-Belgium, 1 - 4 May 2009.

Cocoa beans and chocolate Indonesia as a part of community life Belgium.

European consumers are cocoa and chocolate products that will reach 40 percent of global cocoa consumption in 2010. Projected consumption growth reached 1.7 percent per year and reach 1.4 million tons of needs, from 3.2 million tons of total world demand.

Indonesia cocoa exporter countries recorded or third after nut-brown Ivory Coast and Ghana.

Indonesian cocoa production are projected to grow 3.5 percent per year and reached an average production of 650-750 thousand tons, or about 16 percent of global production in 2010.

Cocoa become the largest contributor to foreign exchange in the three sectors of agriculture, after the rubber and palm oil, with a value of 668 million U.S. dollars and open employment for 800 thousand families cocoa farmers.

Through the cocoa and chocolate products, India is not only known, but this chocolate products should be able to art products that add value to the employment and income countries. According to Dewi Kusumastuti, Coordinator of Economic Function KBRI Brussels, cocoa and cocoa beans were imported from Indonesia and is processed naturally, not only industrial products into Belgium, but more than that to be the product of art, creative economy, which opens a variety of employment opportunities for people of Belgium.