Indonesia has a very diverse variety of durians, from the tip of Sumatra to Papua. However, all turn out to have a different harvest time. Although Indonesia is divided into three time zones, or some cluster of islands, but durian harvest in one island is not concurrent. It even tends to jump from one island to another in the same month. KompasTravel had met with Salim, owner of kiosks Durian Salim in several cities in Indonesia that was already 20 years more menggeluti world durian. His friendship with durian started from 1995, when he was assigned to Mekarsari Fruit Garden, Bogor. Currently he is a durian distributor of more than 20 durian producing cities in Indonesia. No wonder, durian harvest time and its location in various cities, have memorized outside his head.
"Harvest durian tuh ga must be from the west first all, new to eastern Indonesia but jumping, depending on the geographical conditions of nature there," he concluded when found KompasTravel at Durian Fair, Blok M Square, Jakarta, Wednesday (7/3/2018 ). He explained, early harvest durian in Indonesia began at mid-year, ie in July. According to him from July to August, durian harvest takes place in Medan and Aceh. "From Medan, jump to Semarang in September-December, there is Mount Pati and Ambarawa," he explained briefly. After that, enter mid-September you can hunt durian harvest in Bogor, Rancamaya precisely also Jonggol. Cianjur city area also harvest highway in mid-September.
