Everything in one page, folded up.

One US dollar claims one square foot. The price is fixed at one dollar per square foot and never changes, for anybody, at any point. You are not bidding and there is nothing to outbid: you choose how many square feet you want and you pay for that quantity. Your claim does two things at once: it fixes the number of square feet attached to your email, and it fixes your position on the board.

The four stages

The confirmation you get on the day you pay is a record of your claim and your position. It is not the leasehold. The leasehold is signed when the board closes and the plots are known, because until then no contract could name the plot it is about. We would rather tell you that plainly than send you a piece of paper that says less than it looks like it says.

The contract runs for seventy-five (75) years from the day it is executed. Here is exactly how that number is built, because it is not one single permission.

Indonesian law does not allow a foreign holder to acquire Hak Milik (freehold). Nobody can offer you freehold in Indonesia, ourselves included. What you get is a long leasehold right derived from Hak Guna Bangunan (right to build), which is the right PT Eco Beach City holds over the parent parcel.

What we undertake. PT Eco Beach City applies, at its own cost and in due time, for every extension and every renewal of the underlying right, for the parent parcel of your plot, on the same terms and with the same diligence as for the rest of its estate, and keeps you informed of each application and of its outcome.

What we cannot promise. Granting an extension or a renewal is an administrative decision of the Republic of Indonesia, taken on application and assessed against the spatial plan in force at that time. We cannot and do not guarantee that decision. If an extension or renewal is refused for reasons not attributable to us, the contract requires us to repay you the proportion of what you paid that corresponds to the unexpired part of the seventy-five years, and to tell you as soon as we learn of the refusal.

We also undertake not to mortgage, encumber or dispose of the parent parcel in any way that defeats or subordinates your right.

The estate is at Desa Manu Wolu, Kecamatan Mamboro, Kabupaten Sumba Tengah, Province of East Nusa Tenggara, Republic of Indonesia. It is a real place with a road to it, people working on it and buildings standing on it. You can fly there and walk on it before you pay anything, and we would rather you did.

PT Eco Beach City holds the parent parcels under registered Indonesian certificates of title, paid in full. The certificate is published on the site and a copy is delivered with your contract. Schedule 2 of the contract lists the certificate type and number, the registered area, the registered holder, the surat ukur number and date, the expiry date of the right, any encumbrance recorded, and any third-party or customary (adat) claim disclosed.

Registered, or contractual

Where your plot is large enough to be surveyed and subdivided as a separate parcel under Indonesian law, we subdivide the parent parcel at our own cost and register your right at the land office, and we deliver the resulting documentation to you.

Where your plot is smaller than the minimum that can be surveyed and subdivided, your right is a contractual right against PT Eco Beach City over a defined, mapped location, recorded by notarial deed but not separately entered in the land register. Schedule 1 states which of the two applies to your plot.

Said plainly: a right that is not separately registered binds us, but it does not bind a third party who later acquires the parent parcel, and it ranks as an ordinary unsecured claim if the company becomes insolvent. That is a real difference and you should read it twice. You can consolidate your square feet with adjoining ones at any time, by claiming more or by acquiring from another holder, until you reach a subdividable size; we then register it at our cost.

The estate is subject to Indonesian spatial planning and to the statutory coastal setback (Presidential Regulation 51/2016). These decide what may be built and where, and they apply to us exactly as they apply to you. We tell you in writing, before you sign, about any planning restriction known to us that affects your plot.

We ask for as little as possible, as late as possible.

We also run the checks that any business taking payments has to run: sanctions screening, and the anti-money-laundering checks required of PT Eco Beach City in Indonesia and of Eco Beach City Ltd in the United Kingdom. Larger claims may take longer to clear for that reason.

Who cannot take part. You must be an individual aged 18 or over, or a properly constituted entity. This is not available to residents of the United States, or to residents of any jurisdiction subject to UK, EU, UN or US sanctions. If it turns out you were not eligible when you paid, we cancel the claim and refund you in full, with no deduction.

If verification cannot be completed for a reason that is not your fault, you get the whole of your money back and the claim is removed from the board. We never keep money for a contract we cannot sign.

You can change your mind, for fourteen days, for no reason

You may cancel any claim within fourteen (14) days of the day the payment for it cleared, for any reason or for none, and receive a full refund with no fee and no deduction. You do not have to explain yourself and we will not try to talk you out of it.

How. Email legal@ecobeachcity.com from the address you paid with. Say which claim you are cancelling. That is the whole procedure. The refund is made within fourteen (14) days of us receiving that email, to the same card or account.

What it does to the board. A cancelled claim is removed from your total and from the board. Claims placed after it are not moved back, because nobody's position should depend on somebody else changing their mind.

If we cannot deliver, you get everything back, with no deadline

If the right described in the contract cannot be granted, registered or maintained for any reason attributable to us, you are entitled to repayment in full of everything you have paid, whenever that arises. That right is not subject to any time limit and it does not lapse. Eco Beach City Ltd, which receives the card payments as our authorised agent, is jointly and severally liable with PT Eco Beach City for that repayment.

If an extension or renewal of the underlying right is refused for reasons not attributable to us, we repay the proportion of what you paid that corresponds to the unexpired part of the seventy-five years.

These terms govern your use of ranking.land and your claim on the board. The leasehold itself is governed by the contract, which is published in full and prevails over this page on anything to do with the land.

The board

• Fixed price. One US dollar per square foot, inclusive of Indonesian VAT and of any Indonesian tax payable by us on the grant. The price does not rise, fall or vary with demand, and it is the same for the first claim and the last.
• Minimum and maximum. The minimum claim is 2 square feet. There is no maximum, up to the total area offered on the board.
• Position. Positions are ordered by total square feet held against one email address, largest first. Where two totals are equal, the one reached first is placed higher. Position decides the order in which plots are chosen at the close, and nothing else.
• Nothing is displaced. Somebody claiming more than you changes the order in which plots are picked. It never reduces your square feet, never returns your money and never removes you from the board.
• Closing. The board closes on whichever comes first: every offered square foot claimed, ten consecutive days with no new claim, or 31 December 2026. Any new claim restarts the ten days. Once closed, the order is frozen and plots are allocated in that order.
• Other land. Eco Beach City may sell or lease other land, in other areas of the estate or elsewhere, on other terms. It will never do so through this board and it will never take a plot away from anybody already on it.
• What is shown publicly. Only the name or link you choose, and your square feet. We never publish your email address, your phone number or anything from your verification documents.

Using the site

• You may not claim on somebody else's behalf without their authority, use a name or logo you have no right to use, or put anything on the board that is unlawful, deceptive, obscene, or that impersonates another person or business. We may remove any name or link that breaches this, and where we do, the square feet and the position stay yours and only the display changes.
• You may not attempt to interfere with the site, the payment flow or the board, or to place claims by automated means.
• The text, images, video and design on this site belong to Eco Beach City. Third-party names and logos shown on the board belong to their owners and appear because the holder chose to display them.
• We may correct obvious errors on the board, including a claim recorded twice by a payment-system fault. If a correction reduces what a payment bought, we refund the difference.

Everything else

• Whole agreement. The contract, its schedules, and the rules of the board as published at the moment the board closes are the whole agreement between us. There is no side letter and no private annex, and no member of our team has authority to give you different terms in a message.
• Changes. We may update this page. Anything that changes the rules of the board is announced on the board itself before it takes effect, and never applies retroactively to a claim already made.
• Governing law. The contract and the land right are governed by Indonesian law, and the Indonesian courts have jurisdiction. Where you are a consumer resident in a country whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your own courts, that right is unaffected.
• Language. The contract is executed bilingually in English and Bahasa Indonesia. Where the two differ, the English text governs, as permitted by art. 31 of Law 24/2009.
• Severability. If any part of this page is held invalid, the rest stands.

This is the section we would read first if we were you. None of it is boilerplate.

• This is not an investment and there is no return. No income, yield, profit, resale value or appreciation is offered, forecast or implied by us or by anybody acting for us. Treat what you pay as the cost of holding a piece of land you want, not as money you expect to grow.
• The value of land can fall. It can also become difficult to sell at any price. There is no market maker, no guaranteed buyer and no public price.
• The term depends on decisions we do not control. The current certificates run to August 2054. The 75 years require extensions and renewals that are administrative decisions of the Indonesian State. We must apply and we will; the State decides. Section 02 explains what happens if one is refused.
• A small plot may not be separately registered. Where a plot is below the minimum subdividable size, your right is contractual and recorded by notarial deed, not entered in the land register. It binds us, but not a third party who later acquires the parent parcel, and it ranks as an ordinary unsecured claim if the company becomes insolvent. Section 03 explains how to move out of that position.
• Company risk. Your refund rights are only ever as good as the company that owes them. If PT Eco Beach City and Eco Beach City Ltd were both unable to pay, an obligation to repay you would not by itself get your money back.
• Country risk. Indonesian land law, foreign-ownership rules, spatial planning, tax and the coastal setback can change, and changes can affect what may be built on the estate and on your plot.
• The estate is not finished. Roads, services and shared facilities are being built and some of what is planned may be built later than intended, differently, or not at all. What exists today is what you can see on the map and in the photographs, and what you can walk into if you visit.
• Building is separate, optional and not included. Nothing obliges you to build. If you do, you contract with the construction company directly and pay it in instalments against work completed. Construction cost is not part of what you pay here and construction prices can rise.
• Rental is a service, not a return. If you build and you later ask us to rent your house out, that is a separate optional agreement on published terms, which you can end. We make no forecast, guarantee or promise about what a house will or will not earn, and you are free to arrange the rental yourself or not at all.
• Access and use. Getting to the estate involves a flight to Bali, a flight to Sumba and about ninety minutes by road. Occupying your plot is subject to Indonesian immigration law, which is nothing to do with the land right.
• Tax in your own country. Indonesian transfer duty payable by you on registration, and any tax payable where you live, are for your account. We tell you in writing what the Indonesian ones are before you sign. We do not give tax advice.
• Currency. You pay in US dollars. Your bank's conversion and any card fees are between you and your bank.

PT Eco Beach City and Eco Beach City Ltd are the controllers of your personal data. Contact for anything about it: legal@ecobeachcity.com.

What we publish. Only the name or link you chose, and your square feet. Never your email, never your phone, never anything from your identity documents. If you want the display name changed or removed, ask us and we will do it; your square feet and your position are unaffected.

Who else sees it. Our payment processor (Stripe), the Indonesian notary and land office when a deed is drawn up and registered, our professional advisers, and any authority we are legally required to disclose to. We do not sell your data, we do not share it for advertising, and we do not pass it to anybody else on the board.

Where it goes. Your data is processed in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area and Indonesia. Transfers outside the UK and EEA are made under the safeguards required by UK and EU data protection law.

How long we keep it. For as long as you hold a claim or a leasehold with us, and after that for as long as we are required to keep records of the transaction and of our anti-money-laundering checks. Analytics data is aggregate and is not tied to your identity.

Your rights. You can ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it where we are not required to keep it, object to or restrict our use of it, and ask for it in a portable form. Write to legal@ecobeachcity.com and we will answer within one month. If you are not satisfied you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or to the data protection authority where you live.