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Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group: The Business Pillar of Suharto’s Indonesia
Richard Borsuk
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Description for Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group: The Business Pillar of Suharto’s Indonesia
Paperback. Num Pages: 610 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 38. Weight in Grams: 808.
This is the story of Liem Sioe Liong, a penniless migrant from China who arrived in Java in 1938 and became the wealthiest businessman in Suharto’s Indonesia. Through serendipity, good instincts and networking skills, Liem rose from being an obscure, small-scale trader in the 1950s to become an important pillar of support for Suharto, who gained power amid murky circumstances and replaced Sukarno as Indonesia’s president in the mid-1960s.
The text has elusive inputs from Liem and his son Anthony Salim, currently CEO of the giant conglomerate Liem founded, known as the Salim Group. It traces the history ... Read more
This is the story of Liem Sioe Liong, a penniless migrant from China who arrived in Java in 1938 and became the wealthiest businessman in Suharto’s Indonesia. Through serendipity, good instincts and networking skills, Liem rose from being an obscure, small-scale trader in the 1950s to become an important pillar of support for Suharto, who gained power amid murky circumstances and replaced Sukarno as Indonesia’s president in the mid-1960s.
The text has elusive inputs from Liem and his son Anthony Salim, currently CEO of the giant conglomerate Liem founded, known as the Salim Group. It traces the history ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Institute for Southeast Asian Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
807g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, Singapore
ISBN
9789814459570
SKU
V9789814459570
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About Richard Borsuk
Richard Borsuk and Nancy Chng are journalists based in Singapore. They lived in Jakarta from 1987 to 1988.
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