Civet coffee is the type of coffee from coffee beans that have been eaten through, and alimentary tract of animals called Luwak. This eminent coffee has been famous to overseas. Even in the United States, there is a cafe or coffee shop that sells luwak coffee (Civet Coffee) with a fairly expensive price. Coffee taken from a civet dirt could reach U.S. $ 100 per 450 grams. The only truth that the coffee sold is actually civet coffee is still debatable.

The eminence of this coffee is because a believed myth in the past, when the coffee plantation was opened a large-scale in the Dutch East Indies until the decade of 1950s, in which at that time still there are lots of animals like civet.

Civet likes to find fruit that is quite good fruits including fruit coffee as food. Coffee beans from the coffee fruit, after eaten by the civet with its dirt removed, previously fermented in the civet stomach. Coffee beans like this, often in the past on the coffee farmers, as they believed came from the best coffee beans and naturally fermented. And it is believed that the taste of coffee civet are truly different and special the fans and be it coffee.

However, civets are now difficult to find. Their meat that is trusted to be effective in healing Asma makes them continue to be hunted. Therefore the coffee seeds collected from the civet dirt turns to be only a myth.

"Civet coffee" now has become the trademark of a coffee company. Generally, this brand of coffee can be found in shops or cafes or shops in Jakarta where there are many cafes of civet coffee." But the civet coffee sold in those cafes migh not be real civet coffee which are fermented from the civets.