Giving back in Buwun Mas and Sekotong

The idea

Adrian Campbell's view is simple. Kinnara Capital's land in Sekotong sits beside villages where families have farmed and fished for generations. Saraya will bring jobs, visitors and change. The company's job is to make sure the people already there share in it, and to be in the room, in their language, when they have questions.

It is also practical. A development that the village resents is a development with problems: disputed boundaries, blocked roads, staff who will not stay. One the village has a stake in is a development with neighbours who want it to succeed.

Community days

Kinnara Capital holds community days in the villages around its land in Buwun Mas and Sekotong. The one photographed on this site was held on Pengantap beach on 27 June 2026. The company's staff, the contractor's team from TSG Construction, village leaders and local officials spent the afternoon together with food, music and a stage, and the village had the chance to ask about the development face to face.

Adrian speaks Indonesian, so he does this himself rather than through a translator. He says it is the single most useful thing he has learned in 15 years of working in the country, and he has written about why in Learning Indonesian on the floor of a Kuta hotel.

A playground for Dusun Pengantap

At that community day Kinnara Capital and TSG Construction handed over support for a children's playground for Dusun Pengantap, the hamlet of Buwun Mas nearest the Saraya site. The handover to local officials is in the photographs below. A playground is a small thing against a 154-villa resort. It is also the kind of thing a village notices, because it is for the children who live there now rather than the guests who will come later.

Schools

Kinnara Capital donates school supplies and equipment to schools in the villages near its land. The reasoning is long term. Sekotong is about to see new jobs in construction, hospitality and tourism, and the aim is for the kids growing up there now to be the ones filling the skilled roles when resorts like Saraya open, rather than watching those jobs go to people from Bali or Jakarta.

Local jobs

The company's site office and staff housing in Buwun Mas stand on land it has already settled, and its local team is drawn from the surrounding villages. When Saraya opens, two restaurants, a beach club, a spa and 154 villas will need a large local workforce. Adrian has done this before: at Troppo Zone in Bali he employed about 80 local staff, and some are still working there more than a decade later.

And in Australia

The same principle runs through his Australian work. As Managing Partner of First Nations Mining Australia, a majority First Nations-owned explorer working with the Yindjibarndi people in the Pilbara, the aim is for the returns from the land to stay with the community that owns it.

What this page is not

It is not a list of donations with dollar figures attached, and it does not name the families or children involved. The photographs show village leaders and officials in their public roles at a public event. The rest of the village's business is its own.