Indonesia's cocoa at a strategic crossroads: Downstream success, growing import dependence

A wider, strategic view of Indonesia's cocoa sector. For much of the past two decades, Indonesia ranked as the world's second- or third-largest cocoa bean producer. Yet it remains largely absent from global cocoa debates, which focus mainly on Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, Latin American origins and European markets. One reason may be that Indonesia's downstream transformation succeeded almost too well.