Seventeen thousand islands. One producer.

For events under 200 guests, eight to twelve weeks is comfortable. For MICE formats, destination programmes or anything in peak season (June to August, December), we recommend four to six months. We do take shorter briefs — the record is eleven days for a 300-guest launch — but earlier booking buys you better venues at better rates.

Yes. Roughly 60% of our work comes from companies headquartered outside Indonesia. We run planning in English, quote in IDR with USD, SGD or EUR reference conversions, and work across time zones with scheduled weekly calls.

We quote a single project fee that includes our management fee, and we show you the underlying vendor costs. You see what the venue charges, what catering charges, and what we add. There are no hidden commissions, and any vendor rebate we negotiate is passed to you.

Typically 40% on contract signing to secure venue and key vendors, 40% at thirty days before the event, and 20% within fourteen days after. For government and large corporate clients we can align with your procurement terms.

Yes. We invoice in IDR by default and can invoice in USD or SGD via our corporate account. Exchange rates are fixed at contract date so your budget does not move with the market.

Yes. PT Alternative Nation Cipta is a registered Indonesian limited company with NPWP, NIB and full tax compliance. We routinely supply company deeds, tax clearance and bank references for vendor registration.

All events carry public liability cover. Adventure and outdoor programmes carry additional participant accident cover. Certificates are provided before the event and can be issued in your company's name where required.

Every outdoor programme is contracted with a wet-weather alternative in the same venue or within fifteen minutes of it. We hold the alternative until 48 hours before, and the cost is built into your quote — not added later.

Yes. We handle flights, visa support letters, airport fast track, rooming lists, transfers and a 24-hour guest hotline. For groups over 50 we place a dedicated guest relations officer at the arrival terminal.

We provide simultaneous interpretation in English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Bahasa Indonesia, with booths and receivers. Consecutive interpretation is available for smaller formats.

It scales with the event. A 100-guest dinner runs with four to six of our people. A 1,000-guest conference runs with a core team of twelve plus contracted crew. You will always know the names and roles before the day.

One project director, reachable on a single number from load-in to teardown. You do not chase departments.

Yes. If you have preferred suppliers — a photographer, an AV partner, a caterer — we integrate and coordinate them at no additional management fee. We ask only that they meet our safety and insurance requirements.

Yes, and this is where local knowledge matters most. We handle municipal event permits, police notifications, national park permits, alcohol licences, drone clearance and noise permits as part of the project.

A facilitated session at the end of the programme plus a written report within five working days: observed team dynamics, communication patterns, and specific recommendations. For leadership camps this includes individual assessment notes.

Yes. We run a site inspection with the client, build the vendor network locally, and price the inspection into the project. We have opened new destinations for clients in Sumba, Belitung and Wakatobi this way.

Cancellation more than 90 days out refunds everything except non-recoverable vendor deposits. Between 90 and 30 days, 50% of the project fee applies. Inside 30 days, the full fee applies, though we will always try to reschedule instead.

Yes. We can deliver events with no single-use plastics, locally sourced catering, digital-only collateral, carbon-offset transport and waste separation with a measured diversion rate. We report the numbers afterwards.

Every project includes photography. Video, same-day highlight reels, livestream production and social content packages are available and are quoted separately so you can scale them to your needs.

Send a brief — even a rough one — to hello@alternativenation.co.id or message us on WhatsApp. We respond within one working day with initial questions, and deliver a full costed proposal within five working days of the briefing call.

Not for destinations we work in regularly, which covers most of the country. For new locations we quote on desk research and confirm after inspection. Either way the quote we sign is the quote you pay.

Two things. We hold the contracts with vendors rather than brokering them, so the accountability is ours. And we work to international standards on documentation, safety and reporting — which matters when your head office needs to audit the spend.