Lampung · Sumatra
Lampung black pepper
Lampung black pepper is a registered geographical indication and a name the world trade uses almost as a grade. What decides what physically arrives is not the origin but whether you bought FAQ or ASTA, and those describe very different bags at very different prices.
A protected name.
Lada Hitam Lampung
IG.00.2014.0000131
Registered for Lampung province. The same province holds a separate registration for robusta coffee under Kopi Robusta Lampung.
What makes it different.
- Picked green, dried with the skin on
- That is what makes it black pepper rather than white. Muntok white pepper from Bangka is the same vine handled completely differently.2
- FAQ against ASTA is the real decision
- Fair Average Quality arrives as it came off the farm, with stalks, dust and light berries. Cleaned grades cost more and arrive clean. The origin does not settle this.
- Smallholder vines
- Grown across many small holdings feeding collectors, which is where variation and adulteration enter the chain.
- Two registered crops, one province
- Pepper and robusta coffee both hold registrations here, and the same exporters frequently handle both.1
Getting it out.
- Panjang is on the doorstep
- Lampung has its own container port, which is unusual for an Indonesian spice origin and removes a domestic leg.
- Microbiology and treatment
- Whole spice carries a microbiological load European buyers manage upstream. Steam treatment changes the product and the price, so decide before comparing offers.3
What we source here.
Indonesian pepper
Two named Indonesian origins, and the FAQ against ASTA distinction that decides what actually arrives in the bag. What a pepper contract has to name.
Indonesian coffee
Arabica and robusta origins, wet-hulling, how the national standard grades a lot, packing, and the documents a buyer needs including EUDR.
Export documents, by category
Four categories, four different sets of paperwork and almost no overlap. Built from the reference pages, so it cannot fall behind what is published.
How to verify an Indonesian supplier
Two public government registries, the cross-check between them that catches most problems before a deposit moves, and the part only a visit can answer.
Questions buyers ask.
Is Lampung a grade or a place?
A place, registered as a geographical indication, which the trade uses as though it were a grade. If the origin claim matters for your labelling, buy on the registered name and ask for the evidence. If what you care about is what is in the bag, the FAQ against ASTA question matters more.
Should I buy FAQ to save money?
Only if you have cleaning capacity, because FAQ is farmgate condition and somebody has to remove the stalks, dust and stones. Buyers who order it for the price and then discover the cleaning cost have not saved anything.
Can I get coffee from the same exporter?
Frequently yes, because both crops are registered in this province and the same trading houses handle them. Whether they can share a container depends on the destination's document requirements rather than on compatibility in the box.
What does your service cost?
Five per cent of the order value, paid by you and never by the factory. A factory audit starts at $250 depending on location. We work with orders from $10,000 per shipment.
Worth reading.
Buying from Lampung?
Tell us the specification and the port. We go to the region, look at the material and put the documents together before anyone quotes a price.
Sources
- 1Register of protected geographical indications. Direktorat Jenderal Kekayaan Intelektual, Republic of Indonesia. Checked 5 August 2026.
- 2Indonesia country profile. International Pepper Community. Checked 3 August 2026.
- 3Entering the European market for black pepper. CBI, Netherlands Enterprise Agency. Checked 3 August 2026.