38 | FORBES INDONESIA JULY 2019
With Savis Tea, Lily Gunawan seeks to
grab market for Indonesian premium tea.
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ndonesia is the seventh-largest
tea producer in the world with an
output of over 140,000 tonnes ac-
cording to a report by the country’s
statistic agency (BPS) in 2017. The
tea tradition in Indonesia was in-
troduced during the Dutch colonial era, but
the type that ordinary people consumed was
what was left over from the good tea culti-
vation. The leaves no longer had their own
natural sweet scent and flavor, so people
blended them with jasmine and added sugar,
thus creating the tea that is now consumed
nationwide. However, founder and CEO of
Savis Tea (PT Ara Savis Sejahtera) Lily Gu-
nawan wants to introduce the goodness—asLily Gunawan