A cupping table scattered with green and roasted coffee beans, a brass scoop, and a hand-written tasting card.

Est. 2018 · Bandung Highlands · Batch No. 0417

A field journal of honest Indonesian coffee.

We roast in small batches, write down everything, and let the bean tell the truth. Pull up a stool — the kettle's already on.

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The Front Page

Three beans we'd stake the journal on

The roasts we reach for first thing in the morning and the last cup before close. Each one earned its place by the cupping table.

House Favourite

Gayo Sunrise

Aceh · Washed · Light Roast

Bright lemon zest, jasmine, a finish like cold honey on warm bread.

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Crowd Pleaser

Kintamani Amber

Bali · Honey · Medium Roast

Red apple and brown sugar, a syrupy body, gentle clove on the way out.

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Night Shift

Toraja Midnight

Sulawesi · Wet-Hulled · Dark Roast

Dark cocoa, cedar and tobacco, a low rumble of molasses underneath.

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The Signature Page

Turn the warmth dial

Roast level changes everything — the colour of the cup, the way the room smells, the whole mood of the page. Slide it and watch the journal warm up.

Light roast beans, pale cinnamon brown. Medium roast beans, warm chestnut brown. Dark roast beans, deep oily espresso brown.

Medium Roast

Balanced and rounded — red apple, brown sugar, a syrupy body with a whisper of clove.

Roast time
11 min
First crack
196°C
Dev. ratio
22%

The Catalog Pages

The full shelf, written up

Every bag is roasted to order and dated by hand. Filter by where it grew or how dark we took it.

Origin
Roast
The Kopi Sangkala roastery: a drum roaster, sacks of green beans, and a chalkboard of the day's batches.
the 12kg drum, named "Ibu"

From the Roaster's Desk

We started with one stubborn kettle

It began on a cramped balcony in the Bandung highlands, with a borrowed popcorn roaster and a notebook that smelled permanently of smoke. We were chasing a simple, stubborn idea: that a cup of coffee should taste like a place — the soil it grew in, the hands that picked it, the morning it was roasted.

So we wrote everything down. Bean weight, the colour at first crack, the exact minute the room filled with the smell of warm caramel. Hundreds of pages later, those notes became Kopi Sangkala — a roaster run like a field journal, where every bag is an honest entry, dated and signed.

We still buy green coffee from farmers we've shared a meal with, still roast in batches small enough to taste each one, and still write it all down. The notebook's just a little less smoky now.

— Raka & Ayu, founders

Three Easy Steps

How to get a bag to your door

  1. 01

    Pick your roast

    Slide the warmth dial or browse the catalog. Light and bright, or dark and rumbly — there's no wrong answer.

  2. 02

    Message us on WhatsApp

    Tap any "Order" button. It opens a chat with your bean already typed in. Tell us your grind and quantity.

  3. 03

    We roast & ship fresh

    We roast to order, rest the beans, and send them within 48 hours — dated on the bag, naturally.