 Cigars are made of rolled dried tobacco leaves. Nusantara Plantation
Corporation 10 lies eight kilometers north of Jember. The cigars are
exported to Europe, America and Australia. However, it also produces
Indonesian cigars for domestic consumption. All visitors can see the
process of cultivating seedlings, drying tobacco leaves, picking as well
as the making of cigars. Dutch visitors can especially enjoy the
nostalgia of the site as they participate in the agro tourism. The first
people who introduced the process of tobacco cultivation were the
Dutch. Jember became known to Europeans as the “Tobacco city”
particularly in Germany. To reach the Nusantara Plantation the visitors
can take public transportation from downtown.
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