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Adrian Campbell

Giving back in Lombok

Aerial view of the West Lombok coastline, villages and farmland
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  1. Community days
  2. Supporting local schools
  3. Local jobs
  4. First Nations partnership in Australia

Adrian Campbell believes a development only works if the village around it is better off for it. In Sekotong, West Lombok, where Kinnara Capital holds its land, that means showing up for the community long before the first guest arrives.

Community days

Kinnara Capital holds regular community days in the villages around its land in Buwun Mas and Sekotong. Staff, contractors, village leaders and local families spend the day together, sharing food, meeting the team and talking about what the development will mean for the area. They are a chance for the village to ask questions directly and for the team to hear what matters to local people.

Adrian speaks Indonesian, so he talks with families and village leaders himself rather than through a translator. He says that is the single most important thing he has learned in 15 years of doing business in Indonesia.

Supporting local schools

Kinnara Capital donates to schools in the villages near its Lombok land, providing school supplies and equipment for local children. Education is the long-term answer for villages that are about to see new jobs in hospitality, construction and tourism. The goal is for the young people growing up in Sekotong to fill the skilled jobs that come with resorts like Saraya.

Local jobs

Kinnara Capital's staff housing and site office in Buwun Mas are built on land it has already settled, and its local team is drawn from the surrounding villages. When Saraya opens, the restaurants, beach club, spa and villas will need a large local workforce. Adrian has done this before: at Troppo Zone Puri Rama Resort in Bali he employed about 80 local staff, and some still work there today.

First Nations partnership in Australia

In Australia, Adrian is Managing Partner of First Nations Mining Australia, a majority First Nations-owned explorer working with the Yindjibarndi people in the Pilbara. His aim there is the same: profits that stay with the community that owns the land. Visit fnma.com.au and kinnara.capital.