The Aksenta CAFE Practices Team arrived in Port Moresby–and ready to flight to Goroka, June 20th 2008.

Port Moresby, PNG. The Aksenta CAFE Practices Verifier Team, based on Jakarta, Indonesia, has arrived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG), at June 20th, 2008. The team consist of Dwi R. Muhtaman (Team Leader), Sigit B. Setyanto (Field Coordinator), Agus E. Munoraharjo and Odjat Sujatnika (Team Members). They’ll be in PNG for a week and had a plan to visit Goroka and Mount Hagen for CAFE Practices verification.

Monpi Coffee Export, a coffee company based in Goroka, has asked the Team to come to its plantations as a part of a CAFE Practices verification program of SCS and Starbucks Coffee Agronomy Company, USA. A field plantation verification needed to pass the standard of CAFE Practices requirements, where the verifiers have to find out 4 important elements practiced by the coffee plantations, i.e. management transparency, social responsibility, ecological leadership and sustainability monitoring.

Nick Watson, the Manager of Monpi Coffee Export, who communicates and negotiates with Dwi, picked up the Team himself in the Goroka airport, June 20th, 2008, when they arrived in the afternoon at the same day.

Opening meeting, then hold in the Monpi office, Goroka, where the short meeting attended also by Garry Ellen, Sustainable Coffee Manager, and Christopher, Monpi General Manager. (AEM)

Mount Hagen Map

Mount Hagen, West Highland Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Aksenta Team 2 (Sigit and Agus) spent 3 D/N in Kigabah Estate, a Kunjin Network of Monpi Coffee Export in WHP, managed by Bill Gardner.

A coffee picker’s smile: always optimist and cheerful on work although the life isn’t always easy. (Site: Mapi plantation, Anglimp, Mount Hagen, WHP. Photograph: Agus EM)