PT. Alam Sari Interbuana
(known as PASI)
Our History and Vision
Food is one of human basic needs to survive, and human ways to eat food had evolving from time to time, from prehistoric way to eat raw food directly from nature, to the invention of fire and grilled the food, and from basic daily activities to aristocrat style for dining, and from just full fill the hungry stomach to medicinal way of living. The way human cook their food is keeping evolving to more than its basic purpose. Along with the human evolving ways to cook their food, there also a need of food that tastes better or more delicious, so we start to add condiment to our food ingredients.
The searching of various food ingredients is one reason of the trading activity. In ancient time, we know that traders from European had searching exotic condiment, that could not been growth in their land. They searching until Asia continent. And several of the exotic condiments are growth natively in Indonesia. Among those are Nutmegs, Pepper, Cloves and Cassia Vera.
Historically, Indonesia has been the major source of spices for the Dutch, British and Portuguese traders. And because of seizing the exotic condiment area, so many battles have been occurred for prolonged time, causing many lives lost in their quest and pursuance for these exotic spices, but after all that time it ended with no advantage to native resident who were still live in modest way of living. Until today, Indonesia’s Nutmegs, Pepper, Cloves and Cassia Vera are remain searched by European, and since it famous for their best quality, another part of the world are looking for it too. Until today, the demand volume increased multiple times.
However, exotic spices is delicate products, it is susceptible to climates changes, thus the harvesting such exotic spices required right condition and right time, and our centuries-experienced farmers will ensure it for the best harvested product. Commencing for the vision to export best quality spices, and maintain the product availability to the International market, particularly for the food and medicine industries, PT. Alam Sari Interbuana, struggling to become one of the leading exporter of spices from Indonesia, such as Nutmegs, Cloves, Cassia Vera, Pepper etc.
To achieve our goal, we have dedicated our time, resources and expertise to build a sustainable supply-chain infrastructure through collaboration and cooperation with the farmer, producers and suppliers for each respective commodity. We base our business on friendship-family manner, thus we highly expected to growth together with our farmers, suppliers, local partners, and off course our stakeholder. To express our manner, we often involved directly into the procurement process of requested spices, and in reciprocal, we also educate our farmer, producers & suppliers to meet the specification requested by our clients. As we have did with them, we also able to give our opinion on the specific request by our client base on the real condition of harvested products.