Southeast Asia · ANZ · Investment and Family Office

Where capital meets
conviction.

Tervara is an investment and family office, building across sports & wellness, long term real assets and intelligent technology; and AI native boutique go to market and investment mandates for select families.

Southeast Asia and ANZ. Founder energy, principal discipline, steward's long view.

40+
Years of operating history across Datra Group
3
Pillars: Play, Property, Progress
2
Core markets: Southeast Asia and ANZ

What we do

We build places where people
compete, live, and decide.

We deploy real capital, operating judgment and AI native systems where alignment is strong. Selective by design.

01

Play

Sports infrastructure, venue construction, seating systems and technical equipment built to standard.

02

Property

Long term property platforms and reliable real assets across ANZ and Southeast Asia.

03

Progress

AI native advisory systems, growth stage ventures and digital infrastructure for the next decade.

Latest thinking

Ideas with consequences.

Jun 2026

Progress

The Family Office in the Age of AI: Why Intelligence Is the New Asset Class

Why the winning family offices will build intelligence infrastructure, not just buy AI tools.

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May 2026

Play

Indonesia's Infrastructure Decade: What the 2030 Target Means for Sports Facility Builders

The opportunity is not ambition. It is execution capability, delivery standards and operators who can actually build.

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Apr 2026

Property

Batam's Coastal Opportunity: Why the Island Is Having Its Moment Now

Why Batam's proximity, access and lifestyle demand make it a serious long term property thesis.

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Jan 2026

Progress

Indonesia's Sports Economy: A $12B Opportunity Hidden in Plain Sight

A structural opportunity for operators who understand both the infrastructure and the culture.

Read →

On stage

AI, capital, recovery
and the discipline
to build.

EO
Asia Pacific
Leadership Director
40U40
Prestige
Recognition

Benson speaks as an owner operator, not a professional speaker. His themes are AI, capital allocation, recovery, fatherhood, faith and service.

He accepts keynotes and workshops selectively for EO, YPO, founder communities and leadership rooms where the conversation has real stakes.

Work with us

Not every conversation
needs a presentation.

For aligned families, founders, investors and strategic partners. Selective by design.

hello@tervara.com

Our holdings

Portfolio

Operating companies, strategic holdings, and aligned mandates across Southeast Asia and ANZ. Principal owned, operationally involved and built for the long run.

Play
Datra Group
Projects and EPC delivery for stadiums, arenas, and public active space venues · Indonesia
datra.id
Datra Sports
Sports infrastructure catalogue, technical equipment, modular systems, and project materials · Indonesia
datrasports.com
Ferco Seating
Premium stadium and venue seating systems · International partner JV
fercoseating.com
Property
Summercoast Batam
Coastal resort and lifestyle development · Batam Island, Indonesia
instagram.com/summercoast_
TLG / Ambarrukmo Group
Hospitality, lifestyle, and long term property platforms · Yogyakarta, Indonesia
ambarrukmo.com
Strategic Pest Control
Property services and pest management · Indonesia based
strategic.id
Progress
RMKB Ventures
Growth stage venture investments in technology, AI and digital infrastructure · APAC
LinkedIn / RMKB Ventures
GoKomodo
B2B procurement platform digitising supply chains · Indonesia
gokomodo.com
Progress AI Native Internal

Tervara Intelligence

Our proprietary AI advisory and intelligence layer. Not a mass market product. Not a traditional consultancy. The operating system we built for ourselves, and now deploy through AI native boutique advisory and investment mandates for select families and principals who need the same depth of machine intelligence inside a real operating business.

What it does

Strategic Intelligence
Market signals, competitor analysis, and decision support for principal level decisions.
Operational Automation
AI agents that handle operational work across multiple portfolio companies simultaneously.
Advisory Layer
Deployed for select external principals. By invitation only.

The people

Principal led.
Skin in every game.

Tervara is built by operators, not managers. The principals invest alongside partners, carry the weight of every decision they make, and operate with a founder's energy, a principal's discipline, and a steward's long view.

Principals

BK

Founder & Principal

Benson
Kawengian

Benson Kawengian is an entrepreneur, technologist, and community builder operating across Indonesia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. He is Principal Owner of Datra Group, RMKB Ventures, and Tervara, and currently serves as EO Asia Pacific Leadership Director. He is a Prestige 40 Under 40 honoree, MBA, and former analyst at Bloomberg LP. Benson builds at the intersection of infrastructure, capital, and intelligence, with a founder's energy, operator's discipline, and steward's long view.

He draws on two decades of entrepreneurship and leadership building across Indonesia and New Zealand. He is public about his journey of recovery from alcoholism and addiction, and how that journey has made him a better human, father, and entrepreneur. He does not do speaking or advisory as a profession; he is highly selective and only accepts mandates or speaking opportunities where there is strong alignment.

JK

Principal

Jessica
Kawengian

Strategic partner and principal across the Tervara Group family of businesses. Jessica brings clarity of judgment and a family first stewardship lens to how the group grows, governs, and endures. Her orientation toward long term value creation shapes how Tervara approaches both opportunity and risk, ensuring every decision serves the generation that comes next.

Advisors

Bambang Sulistyo

President Director
Sampoerna Strategic Group

Greg Crichton

Greater Asian Advisors

Barbara Quandt

Former VP
HarbourVest Partners

Antony Harsono

Director
Samator Group

Phil Kim

Managing Director
Jerde Architects

Justin De Lille

Owner and CEO
Liverton Group, NZ

Thought leadership

Ideas with consequences.

Perspectives on the forces reshaping Asia Pacific, from people building in the middle of them.

Jun 2026

Progress

The Family Office in the Age of AI: Why Intelligence Is the New Asset Class

Why the winning family offices will build intelligence infrastructure, not just buy AI tools.

Read →

May 2026

Play

Indonesia's Infrastructure Decade: What the 2030 Target Means for Sports Facility Builders

The government has committed to 2,400 new sports facilities by 2030. The capital is allocated. The gap is execution capability and delivery standards.

Read →

Apr 2026

Property

Batam's Coastal Opportunity: Why the Island Is Having Its Moment Now

Proximity to Singapore, improving infrastructure, and a new generation of Indonesian buyers seeking resort residential living. The thesis for Batam has never been stronger.

Read →

Mar 2026

Play

The Future of Smart Venues: AI's Role in APAC's Entertainment Revolution

How AI driven systems are reshaping stadium operations, fan engagement, and venue economics across the region.

Read →

Feb 2026

Property

Resilient Real Estate: Navigating Geopolitical Shifts in ANZ Markets

Family oriented developments that outperform across cycles, and why community first assets compound over decades.

Read →

Jan 2026

Progress

Indonesia's Sports Economy: A $12B Opportunity Hidden in Plain Sight

A structural opportunity for operators who understand both the infrastructure and the culture.

Read →

Speaking & Workshops

The perspective of a principal
who has actually built it.

Benson speaks as an operator, father and recovering alcoholic. He connects AI, capital and entrepreneurship with the human disciplines of recovery, faith, service and rebuilding trust.

Keynote

AI, Capital & the Owner Operator in 2026

AI inside a family business, not as software theatre, but as operating infrastructure. A practical keynote on decision quality, capital allocation and the owner operator posture required to compound.

45 to 60 min EO / YPO Leadership conferences

Keynote

Recovery, Fatherhood & the Discipline to Build Again

A personal keynote on recovery from alcoholism and addiction, rebuilding trust, fatherhood, faith and the discipline to lead without hiding from truth. Sobriety as foundation, not performance.

45 to 60 min Recovery Faith & leadership

Workshop

Building Your AI Operating Layer

A hands on session for executive teams and founder groups. Participants map workflows, identify high leverage AI interventions and leave with a first operating architecture.

Half day Executive teams Max 30 participants

Context

Speaking is selective. Advisory is not a volume profession. Tervara builds, invests and operates. Engagements are accepted only when the audience, alignment and purpose are strong.

Have a conversation

We don't do pitch decks.
We do conversations.

Email

hello@tervara.com

For investment, partnership, strategic enquiries, or AI native boutique advisory and investment mandates for select families. We read every message and respond to those that fit.

Where we operate

Southeast Asia
ANZ
Jakarta · Auckland · Singapore

Indonesia Sports

Indonesia's Sports Economy: A $12B Opportunity Hidden in Plain Sight

Indonesia's sports economy is best understood not as a niche theme, but as a window into how the country is modernising in real time. With a population of roughly 280 million and a median age of 30, the domestic market has the scale and energy to support a much deeper layer of facilities, operators, sponsors and community programming than it has historically had. The opportunity is not simply to build more venues. It is to recognise that sport sits at the intersection of public policy, urban development, youth participation, health, wellness and civic pride. For Tervara, that makes the category especially relevant. It belongs in the same conversation as property, infrastructure and long duration capital because it creates the kind of real world usage that compounds over time.

What matters to a principal led investment and family office is not the headline excitement around sport, but the structural conditions underneath it. Government spending on sports facilities has grown, and demand for higher quality venues is visible across schools, municipalities, clubs and private operators. Yet supply of international standard venues remains short. That gap is not merely a planning issue. It is an execution issue. A market can know it needs facilities and still fail to deliver them if it lacks the right builders, operators and long view capital.

That is where Tervara's Play pillar becomes useful. Play is not about spectacle for its own sake. It is about backing real operating platforms, including Datra Group and Datra Sports, that can translate ambition into built outcomes with discipline, local credibility and institutional standards. The same logic applies to sports and wellness assets more broadly. A court, stadium, training facility or active space is not just a project. It is a platform for participation, social trust, recurring use and future commercial activity.

For a family office that thinks in decades rather than quarters, Indonesia's sports economy is compelling because it is physical, visible and socially relevant. Tervara does not approach it as a generic growth narrative. It approaches it as a selective mandate: identify where demand is durable, where execution is scarce, and where the social return on infrastructure can align with defensible economic return. That is a more exacting lens, but it is also the one that holds up over a cycle.

Real Estate

Resilient Real Estate: Navigating Geopolitical Shifts in ANZ Markets

In ANZ, real estate has become a test of whether capital can still distinguish between cyclical noise and structural value. The easy trade is rarely the right one. What endures, especially in markets shaped by regulation, migration, affordability pressure and changing household expectations, is the asset that behaves well when conditions tighten. Tervara's view of resilient real estate begins with a simple discipline: look for assets that solve a genuine human need, support long term community formation and retain usefulness across multiple market environments. The point is not to chase novelty. The point is to own or develop something that remains relevant when sentiment fades.

Family oriented developments are a good example. When a project is designed around liveability, access, safety, amenity and community infrastructure, it becomes less dependent on short term enthusiasm and more anchored in how people actually want to live. That matters in ANZ, where buyers and tenants increasingly value quality of life, practicality and stability over purely speculative positioning. Tervara Property treats that shift seriously. A property thesis should not assume the market will always reward scale or style. It should be built around the more durable assumption that people keep needing places that feel safe, useful and well considered.

This is where the investment and family office lens matters. Principal led capital can afford to be selective, patient and unsentimental. It can refuse to mistake noise for conviction. Through the wider Tervara ecosystem, the focus is on opportunities where the operating logic is clear and the downside is understood. That might mean a development with strong community utility, or a property position whose value rests on enduring location and design quality rather than a momentary market cycle. Either way, the standard is the same: the asset must earn its place in the portfolio by being genuinely useful.

Resilience is often described as defensive, but that underestimates it. The best resilient real estate is productive. It generates trust, occupancy and repeat demand because it aligns with how families live and how cities evolve. In a volatile world, that is an advantage. Tervara's view is that the right ANZ property exposure should feel institutional in discipline and human in purpose. It should be selected, not scattered. It should reflect refined judgment, not herd behaviour. And it should compound quietly, consistently and with enough substance to outlast whatever story the market is currently telling itself.

Smart Venues

The Future of Smart Venues: AI's Role in APAC's Entertainment Revolution

The future of smart venues in APAC will be shaped by a basic truth: venues are no longer static shells for entertainment. They are operating systems. The best ones will use data, automation and design intelligence to improve every part of the experience, from the moment a fan buys a ticket to the moment they leave after the event. In that sense, the question is not whether AI belongs in venues. The question is whether owners and operators are ready to treat intelligence as a core layer of venue performance rather than a decorative add on. For Tervara, that distinction matters because the Play pillar backs platforms that understand the difference between technology as theatre and technology as operating leverage.

AI driven systems can already improve crowd flow, personalise fan journeys and help operators respond in real time to demand shifts. Smart ticketing can better match inventory to attendance patterns. AI assisted concessions can reduce bottlenecks and make hospitality feel less random. Venue teams can make cleaner decisions when they can see more clearly across entrances, concourses, seating zones and service points. Some of the most interesting gains are not flashy at all. They are practical: fewer minutes wasted, fewer manual adjustments, better sequencing and tighter coordination. In a premium environment, those details define whether the experience feels institutional or improvised.

This is where Tervara Intelligence naturally enters the picture. If the firm is serious about an AI native future, then the intelligence layer cannot sit outside the business. It has to shape how the business thinks. That applies as much to a family office or advisory platform as it does to a smart venue. The same logic that drives Tervara Intelligence applies to entertainment infrastructure: surface the signal earlier, connect the dots faster, preserve institutional memory and let judgment compound.

For APAC, the prize is larger than incremental efficiency. The region is moving toward experiences that are more immersive, more responsive and more commercially coherent. That opens room for refined capital and selective operators to build something more durable than a single event asset. It opens the possibility of venues that feel alive because they are being run with constant feedback, not periodic guesswork. That is the kind of future Tervara wants to be close to: not hype, not abstraction, but the calm application of intelligence to real world infrastructure.

Batam Coastal

Batam's Coastal Opportunity: Why the Island Is Having Its Moment Now

Batam's appeal is easy to describe and harder to ignore. It sits close enough to Singapore to benefit from its gravity, yet far enough to offer something different in price, pace and possibility. For years, the island was associated primarily with manufacturing and logistics. That legacy still matters, but it no longer defines the full opportunity set. What is changing is the quality of demand. Batam is increasingly being viewed through a lifestyle, family and wellness lens, and that shift matters because it changes both the buyer profile and the kind of product that can succeed. For Tervara, this is exactly the sort of cross border, selectively attractive market that deserves a disciplined property thesis rather than a broad slogan.

Indonesia's Special Economic Zone policy, better connectivity and expanding ferry routes have helped sharpen that thesis. So has the simple fact that a segment of Singapore based capital is looking south for alternatives that feel closer to home than distant resort markets, but still more spacious and flexible than the city state itself. At the same time, affluent Jakarta buyers are looking for second homes that are reachable without friction. Those are not speculative audiences. They are practical ones. They care about access, design, family use, safety, service and whether an asset fits into a larger life.

Summercoast Batam is a useful expression of this idea because it aligns property with lived experience. Coastal setting, family first design and proximity to a major regional hub create a proposition that is more grounded than purely aspirational real estate. It is not trying to be everything. It is trying to be the right thing for a particular kind of buyer at the right moment in the island's evolution. That restraint is important. In a place like Batam, selectivity matters more than volume.

Through Tervara Property, Batam becomes more than a location. It becomes a study in how Southeast Asia and ANZ capital behaves when it is looking for optionality without losing discipline. The lesson is not that every coastal market deserves attention. It is that the right coastal market, with the right policy tailwinds and the right buyer logic, can become a durable platform for value creation. Batam is having its moment because multiple currents are moving in the same direction. The task for Tervara is to remain selective enough to recognise when that alignment is genuine and decisive enough to act when it is.

Indonesia Infrastructure

Indonesia's Infrastructure Decade: What the 2030 Target Means for Sports Facility Builders

Indonesia's infrastructure decade is best understood as a practical opportunity, not a political narrative. The commitment to expand sports facilities by 2030 is significant because it creates urgency, a budgetary path and a demand curve that operators can read with unusual clarity. When a national system commits to building at scale, it does not only create projects. It creates a need for people who can deliver to standards, coordinate with public processes and finish work that is good enough to last. That is where the real opportunity sits. For Tervara, and especially for the Play pillar, the question is not whether the country wants more facilities. It is whether the market has enough builders who can meet the moment with credibility.

That execution gap is the key issue. Indonesia needs contractors with certified technical capability and the ability to navigate the practical requirements of sports infrastructure at more than one level. Standards matter. Procurement matters. Local execution matters. The ability to move through regional systems without compromising quality matters. These are not glamorous topics, but they are the topics that determine whether a national ambition becomes a functioning asset or an incomplete promise. This is why platforms like Datra Group and Datra Sports are relevant to the Tervara worldview.

The reason the next five years matter so much is that the runway is not theoretical. Indonesia is actively pursuing stronger sporting visibility and broader international relevance, which creates a sustained need for venues, training sites, public active spaces and facility upgrades. Datra's delivery history, including work to FIFA World Cup standards across stadium and training site environments, signals the kind of operating discipline that becomes valuable when standards are non negotiable. For Tervara, those facts matter because they show where execution experience already exists and where future capital can plausibly compound.

Long term family capital prefers transitions it can understand. This one is understandable because the need is visible, the policy direction is clear and the skill gap is real. Sports infrastructure is not a side note in Indonesia's development story. It is part of the story. The best opportunities in such a market are usually not the broadest ones. They are the ones where a selective principal can back a capable operator, respect the complexity of delivery and participate in a category that has both social relevance and economic durability. That is the kind of progress Tervara wants to support: built, usable and aligned with the country's forward motion.

AI Intelligence

The Family Office in the Age of AI: Why Intelligence Is the New Asset Class

There is a superficial version of AI adoption that every family office now understands. You introduce a few tools, reduce some manual work and become incrementally more efficient. That is useful, but it is not strategic. The more important question is whether AI becomes part of the organisation's decision architecture. For a principal led investment and family office, that distinction is decisive. The real opportunity is not to automate isolated tasks. It is to create a system that helps the principal, the office and the portfolio think more clearly, move more quickly and preserve institutional judgment over time. That is the view behind Tervara Intelligence.

Tervara Intelligence is built around a simple premise: in a complex portfolio, context is an asset. If the right signals are gathered early, connected across business lines and interpreted with discipline, decision quality improves. That is why the idea of an AI chief of staff is compelling. It is not about replacing people. It is about building a layer that can monitor, summarise, connect and surface what matters before urgency becomes noise. Across portfolio companies, property, operating platforms and market intelligence, the value lies in continuity. When context is retained, the organisation becomes less dependent on memory residing in one person, one inbox or one moment of attention.

This is also where Tervara's boutique orientation matters. The firm is not trying to be broad for the sake of scale. It is building for select families and principals who want a more refined interface between capital, intelligence and action. That means the advisory model has to be AI native, but also institutionally calm. It has to feel founder led without becoming impulsive, and it has to feel precise without becoming rigid. In practice, that is a demanding balance. It requires a strong point of view about what should be automated, what should remain human and where judgment should remain fully explicit.

For families navigating Southeast Asia and ANZ, the value of this approach is clear. These are markets that reward local nuance, cross border awareness and fast but informed judgement. A family office that understands the age of AI will not treat intelligence as a support function. It will treat it as a compounding layer across the entire enterprise. That is why Tervara Intelligence is more than an internal tool. It is part of the firm's operating philosophy: selective, principal led and built for long duration decision quality. In an era when many firms are still asking what AI can do for them, Tervara is asking a more serious question: how should intelligence change the way a family office thinks, invests and endures?