Kasui – Highland coffee kecamatan in Way Kanan Regency, Lampung
Kasui is a kecamatan in Way Kanan Regency, Lampung province, in the inland highland country of northern Lampung. According to the Indonesian Wikipedia entry, the kecamatan has a multi-ethnic population dominated by the Semende and Ogan peoples, alongside Javanese, Sundanese, Lampung and Balinese communities, with agriculture in coffee and rubber as the principal occupations. The majority religion is Islam, with smaller Christian and Catholic communities. The article highlights Kasui as a recognised water-tourism destination, with waterfalls including Curug Gangsa and Curug Cangkah Kidau among the local attractions.
Tourism and attractions
Curug Gangsa is the headline natural attraction of Kasui, a multi-stepped waterfall on a tributary in the inland highlands that has gained a regional reputation among nature visitors. Other local waterfalls in the surrounding hills add to the area's profile as a small-scale natural-tourism destination. Way Kanan Regency more broadly is associated with coffee cultivation, smallholder rubber and the Bukit Barisan landscape that runs along western Lampung. Lampung province's wider tourism context includes Way Kambas National Park to the east, the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park to the south-west, Krui beach surf and tapis textile heritage.
Property market
Property in Kasui is dominated by single-storey landed houses on family or village land, often combined with smallholder coffee, rubber and rice plots. Branded apartment projects are absent. Commercial property is concentrated at small road junctions and around the kecamatan seat. Way Kanan Regency's wider property market is shaped by Blambangan Umpu, the regency seat, and by the regional agricultural economy of coffee and rubber, with some incremental demand from natural-tourism operations near Curug Gangsa.
Rental and investment outlook
Formal rental supply in Kasui is small and largely informal, dominated by kost rooms and modest contract houses for teachers, civil servants and traders, supplemented by a handful of homestays linked to natural-tourism activity. Lampung province's broader rental market is anchored on Bandar Lampung and Metro, with smaller secondary nodes in regency seats. Investors should treat Kasui as a low-yield, low-volatility highland-coffee market with niche tourism upside tied to the development of Curug Gangsa and other waterfall sites.
Practical tips
Kasui is reached by road from Blambangan Umpu, the seat of Way Kanan Regency, with onward connections to Bandar Lampung via the Trans-Sumatra trunk road. Basic services such as puskesmas, schools, small markets and warungs are organised at desa and kecamatan level; larger hospitals, banks and government offices are at Blambangan Umpu and Bandar Lampung. The climate is upland-tropical with a wet and dry season pattern, with cooler temperatures in the higher hills around the waterfalls. Indonesian regulations restrict freehold (Hak Milik) to Indonesian citizens; foreigners typically use Hak Pakai or Hak Sewa or hold through a PT PMA.
