How It Started
A Piece of Family Land in Alor
The piece of land where Moko Alor Dive sits has been in our family for decades. Long before any of it was a resort, it was where we came to dive — and where friends and family came with us.
Locally Owned,
Family Run
Two dive resorts on the Pantar Strait. A seaweed cooperative employing 5,000 farmers across Nusa Tenggara Timur. Both run by the same family.
The Other Business
Seaweed, Kupang, 5,000 Farmers
We also run PT Rote Karaginan Nusantara, a seaweed processing factory in Kupang. It works with several species, sells to both export and domestic markets, and employs around 5,000 farmers across Nusa Tenggara Timur.
For most of these communities, seaweed farming is the first real alternative to wild-caught fishing — slow, year-round income that doesn't depend on what's left in the reef. A lot of the workforce is women, many earning their own income for the first time.
Two Resorts
Moko, Then Naraya
Moko Alor Dive opened in 2023 with three villas. By 2024 we'd built seven more — the resort has ten now, sleeps twenty-six, full board.
Naraya is next: a smaller, quieter sister currently under construction on the same land. Five villas, fourteen guests, for guests who want more privacy.
Around ninety percent of the staff at Moko grew up in the surrounding villages. Most arrived without prior experience in hospitality or diving and were trained from scratch.
The Dive Team
Local, Long-Trained
Most of our dive masters grew up in the villages around the resort and were sent for formal training fifteen years ago. They're still here, guiding the same waters they helped pioneer.
That kind of tenure shows up underwater. They know how a site shifts through the lunar cycle, where the regulars sit, which corner of the wall holds the rhinopias this month. None of that is in a dive briefing.