Civet coffee = Halal

By: Yoedi Karyono

Drink of the most exclusive and that only in Indonesia, even the price of one drink a small cup that could reach USD 100 or USD 200 in the United States (U.S.) and is similar to Rp 2,000,000. Incredibly, this drink is known as the mongoose and coffee with a fantastic price, when the price of U.S. pride drinks, Coca Cola for a single bottle of less than USD 2.

In Indonesia the price of coffee per one kilogram of this type is only Rp 350.000 course or not up to EUR 5. After the beans are processed and prepared into a powder ready brewed coffee prices reached USD 900 000 or about USD 10.

Commodity exports from Indonesia and is very exclusive, rather than the Village of East Java, Jember Regency Jampit could make doubts, whether this type of beverage or halaal. That's why the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) needs to deliver a fatwa, after the producers and consumers of this coffee have doubts about lawful or illicit copies of this, and on July 20, 2010, after going through research and trials, then the MUI Fatwa Commission chairman Ma'ruf KH Amin said that coffee is kosher mongoose.

The statement will be strengthened again on July 25, 2010 in, more extensive trials, and is the final statement in the trial of the MUI. Why about halal and haram coffee mongoose is a problem? This is because the process to make the most expensive and exclusive coffee was remarkable.

Ripe coffee beans which are naturally eaten by a mongoose or a palm civet, which is sweet nut shell it becomes food mongoose, but can not digest the coffee beans in the stomach mongoose and finally out of the rectum with feces mongoose.

Seed that has been fermented for 12 hours in the stomach mongoose and out with dirt is then collected by the farmers in the coffee plantation, PTPN XII Jampit Jember, East Java, further processed into high-quality coffee powder with very expensive price, and indeed become the mainstay of export commodities district it.

Natural way is to gather dirt mongoose farmers who had mixed with coffee beans every morning on the sidelines of the coffee tree, and this is a very high quality coffee with recognized experts and enthusiasts worldwide coffee drinks coffee.

The second method, coffee farmers deliberately maintain a mongoose and the mongoose was deliberately fed ripe coffee beans, then the mongoose that choose and eat the beans, after 12 hours later, the mongoose will defecate coffee beans that have been fermented. How this is done in the area of West Java.

The second way is still producing high-quality coffee, but coffee experts prefer a more natural way first, because the quality of coffee produced is very high quality.

U.S. as a country with a population of the world's biggest coffee drinkers in this country and always provides the majority of the population drinks coffee at breakfast or a particular order, but to drink the coffee mongoose is a very expensive thing was done for a special warning only.

Indeed in this country are available various kinds of coffee, including coffee from Colombia, a country with geographical location closer to the U.S. and Colombia is also the world's coffee producing countries. But for the type of coffee mongoose only owned by Indonesia, especially Java. Why, animals mongoose or palm civet is endemic animals that only live on the island of Java.

This coffee is indeed''muta 'unclean (najis), unclean out with dirt, but if cleaned syar'i clean unclean according to religious rules, then no problem to be consumed or traded,''said KH Ma'ruf Amin.

According to KH Ma'ruf Amin, earlier doubts about the lawful and the illicit copies of this type, because that process is what some people considered to be very disgusting, but after research conducted by the MUI, then cleaned out the Islamic religion if this commodity is no problem. Why, because the raw material itself is not the type of illicit goods, its own process of coffee beans to be eaten by a mongoose's natural processes, these animals do feed on seeds of coffee.

Furthermore, digestion mongoose could not digest the beans and then out again, and in the circumstances provided the seed coat is peeling off the skin rather than in the nodes are not peeling, then the coffee beans is not a problem, wash it in an Islamic religious syar'i how to eliminate the odious . How to remove unclean in Islam is to wash seven times rinsed with clean water and one was washed with sand or soil.

''No problem, after cleaning can be consumed by the people of Islam Islam and traded. If somebody or some people become disgusted because the process of fermentation in the stomach during the 12-hour mongoose. Yes if you want to drink coffee he is still a lot of other coffee choices or do not drink coffee at all, it is still great selection of halal and toyibah drinks,''said KH Amin.

How the coffee is very exclusive Hollywood even made a film that connects with a very famous coffee. Movie called Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman tells of two elderly people affected by the disease and can not be cured, they were given a list of last request before dying menjempunya, one of the options list include mongoose drink coffee, and both chose to drink coffee that is considered as one of the pleasures that exist in this world that will be enjoyed before his death. (rainbowdiplomacy.com)