In the water
Surf
Dedicated boats and local guides who read the day, not the timetable. Ten named breaks inside a short run — and the one out front works while everywhere else is still deciding.
02°45′ S · 99°55′ EWest Sumatra, Indonesia
Eight lots. Endless waves. No schedule but the swell.
A private community in a beachfront setting on the Mentawai Islands — 2.7 hectares directly in front of Suicides, with the boats, the guides and everything a surfer needs.
How ownership works- Site
- 2.7 hectares
- Lots
- 8
- Break at the door
- Suicides
- Within reach
- 10 named waves
- Season
- Year round
The proposition
Most people come to the Mentawais for ten days. This is for the ones who kept thinking about it on the flight home.
Located in the world-famous Mentawai Islands — home to some of the most consistent and coveted surf breaks on the planet — this resort concept is designed as a low-impact coastal retreat where nature, wellness and wave-driven adventure coexist.
Three reasons people stay
Between sessions
Recover
A spa and a surf-specific gym built for the second session, not the spa brochure: cryochamber, ice bath, sauna, balance and resistance work, video analysis.
On the island
Belong
Eight households, chosen slowly. Solar and rainwater on site, Mentawai people on staff, and money committed to the island's airport and hospital as lots sell.
Built with Mentawai
Not simply in it.
Solar power and rainwater harvesting carry the site. Construction and service jobs go to Mentawai households first. And what gets built for the village is part of the plan, not a postscript to it.
School
Along with a communal football pitch and pickleball courts, built for the local people.
Next step
We would rather talk first.
It starts with a conversation; if there's a fit, you come for three days and see whether the place is what you have been picturing.
The Community
Eight homes, and everything they share.
Two beachfront lots and six behind them, arranged around the things that make the place work — the spa, the restaurant, the courts and the pitch. Nothing on the plan is speculative; every lot is drawn, measured and spoken for or for sale.
What is on the plan
- Beachfront
- Two lots — 3,170 m² and 2,780 m², each with a 300 m² villa
- Residential
- Six lots — 1,150 m² to 1,300 m², each with a 140 m² villa
- Spa
- 635 m²
- Restaurant
- 625 m², shared by the community
- Pickleball
- 1,680 m² — four courts
- Football pitch
- 1,950 m²
- Staff housing
- 1,420 m²
The villas
Understated, and built to disappear.
Each villa is designed in sustainable materials chosen to blend into the surrounding landscape while preserving as much of the jungle as possible — low roofs under the canopy line, deep shade, ocean on one side and garden on the other. Elegance here means nothing shouting for attention.
- Setting
- A beachfront setting of 2.7 hectares, directly in front of Suicides
- Ownership
- Eight private lots — no rental pool, no rooms sold around you
- Systems
- Solar power and rainwater harvesting across the site
- Service
- Kitchen, housekeeping and boat crew shared across the eight households
- Workshop
- The Quiver Workshop — board storage, repairs, maintenance and watercraft support
Membership
Chosen, not sold to.
With eight households sharing one beach for decades, who joins matters more than how quickly they join. The process is deliberately slow.
- 01
A conversation
An unhurried call about how you surf, how you travel and what you are actually looking for. No deck, no pressure.
- 02
Three days on site
Those who we feel share the spirit and values of the community are invited to spend three days with us — surfing the breaks, eating with the team, seeing the land.
- 03
Lot selection
You choose from the remaining lots, and the villa design is developed with you within the site's material and height guidelines.
- 04
Ownership
Title, build, and a place on the roster for boats, guides and staff from the day you arrive.
Surf
A surfer's nirvana, minus the negotiating.
The constraint in the Mentawais has never been waves. It is boats, crowds and other people's schedules. Ki removes all three: dedicated boats and experienced local guides, so owners reach the best wave for the conditions that day — at first light, at the tide, or not at all.
- Out front
- Suicides
- Within range
- 10 breaks
- Boats
- Dedicated
- Guides
- Local
The line-up
The ten.
Rights and lefts, beginner sandbars and freight-train barrels — inside a run short enough that the call can be made at breakfast and remade by lunch.
- SuicidesAriksRAdvancedThe wave at the door. A high-octane, all-out freight-train barrel over reef — the reason the land was bought.
- TelescopesTelliesLIntermediate +World class, and working somewhere in its length nearly all year. The one everyone else queues for.
- ScarecrowsLIntermediate +An incredibly consistent left over reef. Rarely off, rarely a wasted trip out.
- TikusThe RatLAll levelsForgiving and soft-shouldered — perfect for beginners, and where the family ends up.
- IcelandsThe IceLIntermediate +Two completely different personas depending on size and tide. Worth reading before you paddle.
- Ombak TidurThe Sleeping WaveRIntermediate +Fast walls and the occasional pit. Wakes up with size.
- 7 PalmUlarsLIntermediate +Rides that can stretch up to 200 yards. Legs first, arms second.
- TwiggiesLAdvancedA fun wave to explore, particularly when Telescopes feels crowded.
- HookersLAdvancedFast left-handers, complete with speed walls. Commit early.
- G-4LAll levelsAn uncrowded wave most camps don't even consider. Which is exactly the point.
On land
The Quiver Workshop.
Board storage, repairs and maintenance on site, alongside support for the community's watercraft. Boards live here between trips; dings are fixed overnight rather than carried home.
If it goes wrong
If it goes wrong.
Ki sits on the only island in the Mentawais with a hospital, and owners have telehealth access to Dr. Montee. It is a long way from anywhere — which is the appeal, and the reason this matters.
Rejuvenate
Everything you need to get back in the water.
Recovery here is not an add-on for the people who don't surf. It is what makes a two-week trip a two-session-a-day trip — and it works just as well for partners and families who came for the island rather than the reef.
The spa
Salt, sun and shoulders.
- Bodywork
- Deep tissue massage aimed at post-surf tension — shoulders, lats, lower back
- Skin
- Treatments built for constant sun and saltwater exposure, not city skin
- Package
- Morning Waves & Muscle Melt — dawn session, massage, skin treatment
- For
- Surfers, non-surfers, couples and families
The gym
Surf-specific, not hotel-specific.
A fitness centre built around what surfing actually asks of a body — balance, rotation, and the ability to go again tomorrow.
- Movement
- Balance boards and resistance training
- Technique
- Video analysis — session footage reviewed and worked on
- Recovery
- Full-body cryochamber, sauna, ice bath
Ownership
Eight lots. Never a ninth.
Ownership at Ki is a lot inside a community of only eight villas in a beachfront setting, held through your own Indonesian company, with resort-caliber services attached. There is no rental pool and no rooms sold around you — the site only ever holds eight households.
- Total site
- 2.7 hectares
- Lots
- 8
- Setting
- Beachfront
- Structure
- HGB via PT PMA
How ownership works
Held through your own Indonesian company.
Your Indonesian foreign-investment company holds Hak Guna Bangunan (HGB), giving the company registered rights to build on and use the land. Indonesian authorities specifically recognize PT PMAs as able to obtain HGB for qualifying investment activities.
- Vehicle
- PT PMA — an Indonesian foreign-investment company
- Land right
- Hak Guna Bangunan (HGB) — registered rights to build on and use the land
- Held by
- The company, rather than the individual
- Basis
- Recognised for qualifying investment activities
- Set up by
- Ki, with Indonesian counsel and notaries, as part of the purchase
- Run by
- Ki — annual filings, reporting and renewals handled on your behalf
- Cost
- Formation and the first year's compliance are included in the purchase
A summary of the structure, not legal or tax advice. Your own counsel should review the arrangement before you commit to anything.
Payment schedule
Staged against the build, not against a calendar.
Each instalment falls when a piece of the community is finished and working — not on a date in a contract. You pay as the place comes into being around you, and the last five per cent is held back until your villa is handed over.
Upon signing
On exchange
20%
20%
Boats operational
Target — March 2028
25%
45%
Restaurant complete
Target — July 2028
25%
70%
Spa complete
Target — October 2028
25%
95%
Villa handed over
Target — December 2028
5%
100%
Target dates are indicative. Each instalment falls when the milestone is met, not on the date beside it.
What comes with the land
A house, and a crew.
- Water access
- Dedicated boats and experienced local surf guides, on the day's conditions rather than a fixed schedule
- Quiver Workshop
- Storage, repair and maintenance for boards and community watercraft
- Wellness
- Spa, surf-specific gym, cryochamber, sauna and ice bath
- Arrival
- Seaplane partnerships from Bangkok, Bali or Singapore; private jet or speedboat arranged to your departure time
- Medical
- Telehealth with Dr. Montee; the island’s hospital is the only one in the Mentawais
- Infrastructure
- Solar power and rainwater harvesting across the site
The Mentawais
Seventy islands, 150 kilometres, and about 22,000 people.
The Mentawai Islands sit off West Sumatra, Indonesia — roughly seventy islands spanning 150 kilometres of the western Indonesian archipelago, with a recorded population of 21,901 at the 2020 census.
- 70Islands
- A chain off the west coast of Sumatra, most of them uninhabited.
- 150kmEnd to end
- The span of the archipelago, north to south.
- 21,901People
- Recorded across the whole island group at the 2020 census.
- 1Hospital
- The only one in the Mentawais — and it is on our island.
Why here
Surfers talk about what Bali used to look like.
Lombok — now 5.32 million people — is the answer most of them give. The Mentawais are the honest one: genuinely less crowded, still intact, and holding some of the most consistent reef waves on earth. That is a temporary condition everywhere it has ever existed, which is the argument for eight lots rather than eighty.
The Mentawai people
Ancient wisdom, modern resilience.
Mentawai culture sits in the rainforest of the islands' interior — intricate tattoo artistry, and rituals guided by sikerei, the community's healers. It is a way of living in close accord with the forest that has survived contact with almost everything since. Ki employs locally, builds locally, and takes the position that guests are the newest thing on the island by a very long way.
Getting here
Remote, arranged carefully.
- Seaplane
- Partnership routes from Bangkok, Bali or Singapore
- Private jet
- Arranged to your preferred departure time
- Speedboat
- Available as an alternative or onward leg
- Regional port
- Tua Pejat, the capital port of the Mentawais
- Medical
- Island hospital on site — the only one in the Mentawais — plus telehealth with Dr. Montee
Enquire
Start with a conversation.
Tell us how you surf and how you travel. If there is a fit, the next step is three days on the island — not a contract.
Direct
- +1 310 755 0456
- Location
- Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia