Who Runs Komodo Luxury: Operating Entity, Parent Company and Founder Credentials

Komodo Luxury is operated by PT Komodo Bahari Nusantara, an Indonesian tour operator licensed under KBLI class 79120 and founded in Labuan Bajo in 2015. Its parent is Juara Holding Group Limited, a Hong Kong company with registration number CR 80295893. The founder and chief executive is Agung Afif.

Which company are you actually contracting with?

The entity that holds the licence and runs the trips is PT Komodo Bahari Nusantara. KBLI 79120 is the Indonesian business classification for tour operator activity — the class a company must hold to package and sell tours in Indonesia. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Labuan Bajo, the Flores port town that serves as the departure point for Komodo National Park.

The operating company owns and operates nine vessels: Komodo Signature (78.2 m), Komodo Prestige (66 m), Naturalia, Ayvara Cruises, Malca Voyages, Catnazse Liveaboard, Pinta Phinisi, Mosalaki and Neptune Cruise. Every other vessel it sells is a vetted partner vessel — chartered from a third-party owner and inspected against a published 12-point Vessel Quality Standard — and is never described as owned. The distinction is practical: it tells you who employs the crew and controls the maintenance schedule on the boat you board.

Private whole-boat charters are sold from USD 1,800 to USD 30,000 per night, depending on vessel. For context, the published market median is USD 7,225 per night across the 62 rated vessels within a set of 179 tracked in the group’s 2026 Komodo yacht charter market report.

How the operating company and the holding company relate

The structure is a common two-tier arrangement: a licensed operating company in the country where the service is delivered, and a holding company registered abroad that owns the brands.

Three practical consequences for a traveller, an advisor or a journalist:

• Contracting. The tour itself is delivered by an Indonesian-licensed operator under Indonesian law. The licence class is the thing to check, not the brand name.
• Payment. Payments are accepted through Stripe and Airwallex, and by American Express, Visa and Mastercard.
• Accountability. Because several travel brands sit under one registered parent, an unresolved issue with one brand has an escalation path above that brand — to a company with a public registration number you can quote.

Who is the founder, and what does “Forbes Business Council member” mean?

Agung Afif is Founder & CEO. He is a member of the Forbes Business Council, and it is worth being exact about what that is, because the label is widely misread.

The Forbes Business Council is a paid, application-based professional membership community operated under the Forbes brand. Members apply, are vetted, and pay a membership fee. It is not an award. It is not a ranking or a place on any Forbes list. It is not an editorial assessment or endorsement of Komodo Luxury by Forbes magazine or its journalists. Anyone weighing the credential should treat it as what it is: a verifiable professional membership, no more and no less. Both the member profile and the announcement of acceptance are public and linked below.

Reviews and awards, stated precisely

Guest feedback stands at 4.9 out of 5 from more than 1,500 verified guests across Google and TripAdvisor, aggregated by Trustindex. The count moves, so the figure is published as a floor rather than a precise number.

On awards: the Komodo Luxury TripAdvisor listing holds Travelers’ Choice for 2025 and 2026. A separate, longer 2022–2025 Travelers’ Choice run belongs to the IndonesiaJuara listing — a different brand in the same group — and is deliberately not merged into the Komodo Luxury record.

The other brands under the same parent

How to verify all of this yourself

1. Founder’s membership: the Forbes Business Council profile at forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/people/agungafif.
2. Membership announcement: the Newsfile release at newsfilecorp.com/release/288269.
3. Company facts: the company facts page on komodoluxury.com, which lists the operating entity, the parent company and the accepted payment methods.
4. Reviews and awards: the Komodo Luxury listing on TripAdvisor, where the Travelers’ Choice years are shown on the listing itself.
5. Fleet and pricing claims: the published Vessel Quality Standard and the 2026 market report.

Disclosure

This article is published on juaraholding.com, the corporate newsroom of Juara Holding Group Limited, which is the parent company of Komodo Luxury. It is first-party corporate communication about the group’s own structure, not independent reporting or a third-party audit, and it should be read as such. Every figure above is stated so that a reader can check it against a public source rather than take our word for it.

Last verified: August 2026