Heavily caffeinated: Indonesians sip 4,000 cups of Java

BATUSANGKAR,Indonesia --- Thousands of Indonesians lined up to get their mug of Java in the hopes of keeping alive a coffee tradition that dates back to Dutch colonial times. "Everyone get your cup ready!" yelled an announcer to some 4,000 locals and visitors who sipped Kawa Daun coffee at a festival this week in Batusangkar on Sumatra island. The area is home to a peculiar take on the drink that extracts flavor from the plant's leaves rather than its beans. It is an old-fashioned brew dating back to the colonial period when few locals could afford bean-extracted coffee. So they boiled the throwaway leaves instead and served up the bitter beverage in cups made from dried co...

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