Spanning over 11,000 square kilometres, Sumba is home to stretches of stunning white-sand beaches and tribal villages

Once completed, the resort will comprise a 47-room hotel and 20 villas

To acquire a 9-hectare plot of land on Indonesia’s south-western island of Sumba, a getaway some 50 minutes by plane from Bali, French entrepreneurs Fabrice and Evguenia Ivara first had to request for ancestral approval.