Crazy Rich Indonesia: Dreaming Of Rich Rich, Loves To Show Off Wealth, Ends In Prison

Helena Lim is called crazy rich Pantai Indah Kapuk because she has a super luxury house. (Instagram/@HELalim8999)

JAKARTA Shocking news came from Harvey Moeis, a crazy rich who is also the husband of artist Sandra Dewi. The father of two children was named a suspect in the case of alleged corruption in tin trading in the Mining Business Permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk 2015-2022.

Harvey Moeis was detained by the Attorney General's Office towards midnight, Wednesday (27/3/2024). Before being named a suspect, along with five other people, Harvey was examined as a witness by the investigation team. Based on the evidence that has been owned, he was detained for the next 20 days at the Salemba Rutan, the South Jakarta District Attorney's branch.

He became the 16th person to be a suspect in this case. Among the suspects, ad Helena Lim, a tajir entrepreneur who lives in Pantai Indah Kapuk.

Duacrazy richIndonesia is a suspect in a corruption case that allegedly occurred in the 2015-2022 period and caused losses to the state due to environmental damage caused by Rp271.06 trillion.

Both Helena and Harvey have been labeled as creative rich from the Indonesian people. The term creative rich first appeared in Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel entitledCrazy Rich Asians which was published in 2013. This term became increasingly popular after the novel was adapted into a feature film with the same title five years later.

This film actually raises a simple problem, namely the love story of a couple of different social status and leads to the rejection of parents. The visual appearance in the film depicts the richness of the male lead family, Nick Young, who has a luxurious home and expensive stuff.

Since then, the term Cracky rich has been widely used by netizens on social media. The point is to describe someone who has extraordinary and very glamorous wealth.

Like Helena Lim, for example, who is nicknamed Crazy richPIK. Her name has become more popular since 2019, when in a show she is known to have a super luxury house in modern classic style in the PIK area. Not only equipped with a swimming pool, Helena Lim's house also has a private salon, a kitchen set for IDR 1 billion, bathroom decoration for hundreds of millions of Rupiah, and plates whose unit price reaches IDR 7 million.

In addition, reported by Kompas, Helena is the owner of beverage products for the DRZLIM Official diet and runs a pharmacy business to fashion.

Another thing about Harvey Moeis. The public has known Sandra Dewi's husband as a wealthy mining entrepreneur, and even their wedding had stolen attention for holding a follow-up reception at Disneyland Tokyo in November 2016.

The man who was born on November 30, 1985 is also known to have a private jet that was awarded to his first child, Raphael Moeis. In addition, his garage lined up in rows of luxury cars ranging from Alphard to Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG which cost more than IDR 7 billion.

The assets of Helena Liem and Harvey Moei are sufficient to illustrate that the two are radical richIndonesia, similar to what the film, which was released in 2018, said.

The nickname crazy rich was also pinned to Indian conglomerate Mikesh Ambani, who is ranked 10th on the list of the world's richest people. According to Forbes, he has a wealth of 115 billion US dollars, or equivalent to Rp1.8 quadrillion.

Not long ago he stole the show because he invited the famous singer Rihanna in a territory ceremony for his youngest child, Anant Ambani, which will be held from March 1 to 3, 2024 in Jamnagar, Gujarat. His own wedding will only be held in July.

Apart from Rihanna, according to Reuters of the Diplomas ceremony was also attended by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Disney CEO Bob Iger. Previously, in 2018 the Ambani family also invited Beyonce to another daughter'sulant, Isha Ambani.

The nameCrazy Rich is often used by generation Z (gen Z) and millennials. However, the increasingly popular term crazy rich cannot be separated from the role of the Instagram platform, which is widely used by millennian and Z generations.

Professor of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of Indonesia (UI) Njaju Jenny Malik said creative rich is a new phenomenon that occurs in the millennial generation. According to Jenny, the emergence of Crazy rich as a phenomenon is caused by the rapid information spread through social media and the online mass media which is very popular, especially Instagram. Through this platform, the term crazy rich quickly spreads to the community, especially generation Z and millennials.

"They (generationally millennials) are very happy with their LIKEs, comments, regrams, reposts, share. Well, this audience response is the forerunner of a new breakthrough rich model innovation," Jenny said in a public discussion "Photo Crazy Rich Indonesia: Concerning?" on March 16, 2022.