Mangisi Sinaga, a smiling merchant of coffee from Samosir Island
"This is my son Mangisi Sinaga, the merchant of coffee”, said his friendly mother Boru Siringo-ringo to me as I visited them on Tuesday 25 October 2011 at their business site in Hatoguan Village.
Photo1: Mangisi Sinaga, ST (right) and Dr. Sabam Malau (left)
Hatoguan Village is part of Palipi Subregency of Samosir Regency of North Sumatra Province of Indonesia. Hatoguan Village locates at Samosir Island. Hatoguan Village takes place at the beach of Toba Lake, one of the world’s beautiful lake.
Mangisi Sinaga is alumnus of Institut
Teknologi Bandung (ITB), one of the top 10 universities in Indonesia, in year
2010. In March 2011, he decided to be a coffee entrepreneur as he was convinced that
coffee trading has good economic value and can give him profit. He is still
bachelor and young with age of 24 years old. He sells parchmented coffee bean as well as
green bean to buyers in Medan. To produce green bean, he leases other coffee trader's huller at Palipi Subregency. However, in
the end of this year 2011 he will not lease huller anymore because he will have
his own huller beside his house. The facility construction has been starting
last September 2011.
Photo 2: Worker spreading green bean on the patios belongs to Mangisi Sinaga at Hatoguan Village on Samosir Island
Nowadays, he
is one of the biggest entrepreneurs of coffee at Samosir Island. He manage the
coffee process very carefully and seriously. He himself always involves actively in the entire process. His mother always buys the best quality of parchmented coffee bean from the local markets (Samosir Island), and then he sells only the best quality of green bean. His buyer always buys his coffee with highest price. He can produce 7.5 ton green bean per week. He is now on the way to expand his
capacity to be 20 ton green bean per week.
Photo 3: Coffee bean in the drying process on the patios belongs to Mangisi Sinaga at Hatoguan Village on Samosir Island. Two layers of patios : underneath the plastic is beton concrete.
I admire his
attitude and vision. Mangisi Sinaga is a very polite, friendly, energetic,
optimistic, and open-minded man. What amazing is that he always smiles politely, he is a smiling merchant of coffee.
Kind regards,
Dr. Sabam Malau
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Chairman
Thanks.
Kind regards.
Dr. Ir. Sabam Malau