about
Operator. Developer. Fifteen years in Indonesia.
I am not a consultant who advises on Indonesia from a distance.
I am an operator who has been inside this market for fifteen years, across multiple sectors, with real consequences attached to every decision I’ve made.
Formation
I grew up in Poland and spent my twenties moving. My first serious trip was across Russia, Mongolia, and China on the Trans-Siberian Railway — bought with money earned washing dishes in England, on a one-way ticket. I went as a journalist. I came back with a clearer idea of what I actually wanted.
For the years that followed I worked as a radio reporter for Polish Radio, travelling across Asia from Afghanistan to the Philippines, writing about places and people that most people never see. In 2006 I published a book about those years. It wasn’t a bestseller. But it taught me how to tell a story quickly and accurately — which, it turns out, is exactly the skill you need when you’re walking into a room in Jakarta trying to negotiate something complex in a language you barely speak.
Indonesia
In 2010 I moved to Bali permanently. I have been here ever since.
The first years were a masterclass in failure. I tried everything — tourism, international trade, event production, film, real estate, renewable energy, natural resource export. Some of it worked. Most of it didn’t. Each time I thought I understood Indonesia, the country demonstrated that I didn’t. I kept going anyway, because the market kept revealing more depth than I had expected.
“Each time I thought I understood Indonesia, the country demonstrated that I didn’t. I kept going anyway.”
Fifteen years later I have built something real. Two operating companies, a film that won international awards, and a network of relationships across government, business, and local communities that took every one of those years to develop.
Track Record
Far Horizon, my expedition tourism company, has been operating for over a decade. It has served thousands of clients and led more than thirty deep-field expeditions into remote Papua. I have spent close to a year in total living in the jungle with the Korowai people of New Guinea — one of the last communities on earth to have lived in complete isolation from the modern world. In 2019 a documentary we made about them won gold at Cannes, Barcelona, and Hamburg.
New Life Bali, the real estate development company I co-founded with my wife Ewa Bereszko, has delivered dozens of villa and hotel projects across Bali and multiple Indonesian islands. We have also executed government-commissioned infrastructure projects at scale — including irrigation works in Java and involvement in the development of Indonesia’s new capital in Kalimantan.
My largest television productions — including “Agent” and “Hotel Paradise” — were filmed in Bali. For a period I was also involved in inter-governmental negotiations and projects at a level I would not have imagined when I first arrived here.
Based
Bali, Indonesia — since 2010
Companies
New Life Bali (real estate), Far Horizon (expedition tourism)
Expeditions
30+ deep-field expeditions into remote Papua over 15 years
Film Awards
Gold — Cannes, Barcelona, Hamburg (2019)
Infrastructure
Government-scale projects in Java and Kalimantan
Tv Productions
“Agent”, “Hotel Paradise” and others — produced in Bali
What this means in practice
I am not a consultant who advises on Indonesia from a distance. I am an operator who has been inside this market for fifteen years, across multiple sectors, with real consequences attached to every decision I’ve made.
That gives me something that cannot be acquired any other way: a genuine understanding of how this country works — legally, culturally, relationally — and the network to operate within it effectively.
I work alongside my wife and co-founder Ewa Bereszko, who brings fifteen years of corporate legal experience — including as CEE Legal Counsel at Google and four years at Samsung — to the structural and operational side of everything we build.
Fifteen years later I have built something real. Two operating companies, a film that won international awards, and a network of relationships across government, business, and local communities that took every one of those years to develop.
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