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A Subtle Conversation, A Significant Future

On Friday, 5 December 2025, the IPC Secretariat became the backdrop of a quiet turning point, the kind of scene where nothing feels rushed, yet everything feels destined.
When H.E. Ambassador Djauhari Oratmangun arrived, the room shifted into a different rhythm. Under the steady leadership of Executive Director Marina Novira Anggraini, the dialogue unfolded with the elegance of a well-paced screenplay: measured words, shared vision, and an unspoken understanding that the pepper world may soon enter a new chapter.

At the heart of the exchange was a question that lingered like a compelling plot twist: What possibilities emerge when the People’s Republic of China moves closer to the International Pepper Community? The answer wasn’t declared; it revealed itself through reflections on stability, standards, and the promise of a more connected global value chain.

Then came the scene that grounded the narrative: an intimate demonstration by Madam Yosefin Rosalin Wijaya, from Cultivia, where pepper transformed before our eyes into essential oil, proof that innovation doesn’t always roar; sometimes it whispers, inviting farmers and SMEs into markets of higher value and greater resilience.
A meeting of quiet momentum, cinematic flow, and future implications, leaving behind a sense that something meaningful has begun to move.
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Previous Publications
- International Pepper Community 44th Annual Session and Other Meetings for the year 2016
- Geographical Indication of Lampung Black Pepper
- Members of Panel from member countries met in Bogor to review the IPC Agreement
- ED and Liaison Officers of Malaysia, Sri Lanka visited BALITTRO
- Sincere Condolences
- IPC held 22nd Meeting of IPC Committee on Quality in Kuching, Malaysia
- Mr. Iman Pambagyo, Director General of International Trade Negotiations, Republic of Indonesia and the Chairman of IPC for 2015-2016
- IPC Committee on R&D met in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Indonesian COFTRA / BAPPEBTI to launch Mobile WRS
- IPC to revise the 2005 Pepper Production Guide with the latest update technology
- IPC adopted new revised IPC Standard Specifications for Whole Black and White pepper, Whole Dehydrated Green pepper and Ground Black and White pepper
- Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification System (CCFICS) Melbourne,Australia from 6th to 12th February.
- World Pepper Industry; Present status and Future Trend
- New office of IPC Secretariat inaugurated by Chairman of IPC
- IPC Committee on Quality met at Cochin India to finalize the Revised Draft of IPC Standards for Pepper and Pepper Products
- IPC organized the 3rd International Pepper Conclave 2015 in Shanghai, China
- IPC and CHINAESA to hold the 3rd International Pepper Conclave 2015 in Shanghai
- Dr. A. Jayathilak, IAS named as Chairman of International Pepper Community
- The Government of India is to host 43rd Session and Annual Meetings of IPC from 22nd - 25th Nov. 2015
- IPC Experts met in Lampung to develop a Guideline for Production of Quality Pepper Planting Material and Pepper Production Guide
- IPC and Indonesia Tea Board met to discuss the potential of intercropping Pepper with Tea
- Executive Director of IPC attended the UN-CAPSA Meeting in Bogor
- Indonesia Tea Research Institute seek for support from BALITTRO and IPC for intercropping Tea with Pepper
- NOVOZIMES REPRESENTATIVES VISITED IPC
- IPC to support GIZ-RED pepper project / programme implemented in the pepper growing areas of West Kalimantan