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heyy ....yup it is the Sumatran Kopi Luwak which sells for $600 for a little less than a kg. that's because less than 227kg of this premium coffee is available every year, the beans collected as they are from the excrement of the Sumatran Civet cat which lives in the mountain ranges of Irian Jaya in Indonesia.



I don't doubt that kopi luwak exists but geographically, this seems most improbable as Sumatra and Irian Jaya are at the opposite ends of Indonesia. In US terms it would be like saying collected from the Appalachian mountain cat in Alaska.

Also the Wallace Line separating typically Asian wildlife from typically Australian wildlife runs through the middle of Indonesia between Kalimantan and Sulawesi in the North and Bali and Lombok in the South. Although there is a transitional zone, Sumatra and Irian are well to the West and East of it respectively.

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