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April 21, 2020
For the past few months with COVID-19 and social distancing happening, we have been adjusting to a “new normal” and many of us are staying home. Taking care of your mind as well as your body is crucial in this period. While you may feel anxious, worried, bored, or lonely while staying at home, it’s important to keep in mind that it’s perfectly human to feel this way and everyone has different ways to cope with the situation. In these trying times and under stressful circumstances, it can be easy to reach for foods for emotional comfort, so why […]
August 9, 2019
In the run-up to Indonesia’s 74th Independence Day, we dive into what it means to embody the Indonesian spirit and how a chocolate company celebrates the finest things of Indonesia Krakakoa was founded in 2014 with a mission to empower Indonesian farmers so that they can make a better living for themselves and their families. In the midst of our journey to do so, we have perfected our chocolates to include exquisite award-winning bars and mouth-watering chocolate snacks. Krakakoa products and achievements would not have been possible without the training and hard work that goes into our main ingredient: […]
June 24, 2019
It is a harvest season again for many cocoa farmers across Indonesia. For us, a new season brings a wave of excitement as we look forward to sourcing new batches of cocoa beans from our hard-working smallholder partners farmers across the country. One of the notable areas where we source our beans from is Saludengen, a small village in Mamasa in the District of West Sulawesi that has around 150 farmers working with us. It is the source of our Silver Award, Single Origin Saludengen bar. We started our collaboration with farmers here back in 2017, starting with only 30 farmers […]
June 24, 2019
On the 19th of May, I took a trip with several other cacao-nuts (Yoshino and Tashiki of Dari-K and Thomas of BT Cocoa) to the eastern-most part of Indonesia that I’ve ever been to – Pulau Seram in Maluku. The goal of this trip was to visit a large private cocoa plantation, and explore the potential for partnerships or collaborations. I had a number of reservations before the trip. In the world of palm oil and deforestation, large plantations have a negative reputation of not being the most sustainable forms of production (to put things lightly). Plus I was not […]
