The Latest List Of The 10 Richest People In Indonesia In 2021 According To Forbes, What Are The Ranks Of Hartono Brothers and Chairul Tanjung?

Michael Bambang Hartono. (Photo: Capture CNBC Indonesia's Youtube screen)

JAKARTA - The world's leading business and financial media, Forbes, released a row of the world's richest people. In their report, there were a number of names of national entrepreneurs who filled the list.

'Traditional' names such as the Hartono brothers, Prajogo Pangestu, to Chairul Tanjung are still listed as the people with the most assets in this republic.

VOI editorial team has summarized the order of the top 10 richest people in Indonesia according to Forbes, entitled Forbes World's Billionaires List The Richest in 2021.

10. Mochtar Riady (USD 1.7 million/IDR 2.4 trillion)

There is no doubt about the progress of this senior entrepreneur in the national economy. Through the Lippo Group, Mochtar Riady is developing his business in various different fields.

The man who was born on May 12, 1929, is the owner of First Media, Berita Satu, Matahari Department Store, Hypermart, Foodmart, to hundreds of malls throughout Indonesia with the name prefix or suffix Lippo Mall.

Not only that, several years ago the public in the country was in an uproar because the Riady family, through their son James Riady, announced a megaproject worth IDR 278 trillion on a 500 ha land called The New City of Meikarta.

9. Theodore Permadi Rachmat (USD 1.7 million/IDR 2.4 trillion)

The founder of the Triputra Group has strong businesses in the fields of agribusiness, manufacturing, mining, automotive distribution, and logistics

He is also one of the founders of the Astra business group, which is now one of the most valuable companies in Indonesia. Theodore Permadi Rachmat or TP Rachmat is a key figure behind the success of PT United Tractors Tbk. which is now the largest national heavy equipment company with assets of more than IDR 120 trillion.

In addition, together with Edwin Soeryadjaya, his cousin, he was also involved in raising a coal mining company in Kalimantan, PT Adaro Energy.

8. Jerry Ng (USD 2.5 million/IDR 3.6 trillion)

Jerry Ng is a true innovator banker thanks to the various breakthroughs and innovations he did well during his leadership of PT Bank Danamon Indonesia Tbk, PT Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional Tbk (Bank BTPN) until he became the owner of PT Bank Artos Indonesia Tbk.

For information, 8 months after resigning from his position as President Director of Bank BTPN, Jerry Ng decided to acquire 51 percent of Bank Artos shares with Wealth Track Technology Limited. Now Bank Artos has changed its name to Bank Jago as well as transforming its business into a digital bank.

7. Eddy Kusnadi Sariaatmadja (USD 3 million/IDR 4.3 trillion)

As a successful and well-known entrepreneur, Eddy Kusnadi Sariaatmadja has a qualified educational background. He completed his education with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering at, University of New South Wales, Australia in 1978. Then, successfully achieved a Master's degree in Engineering Science two years later.

His business activities began when he started the Emtek Group. Emtek Group is a large shareholder of television station SCTV. The company also later annexed another private corporation, namely Indosiar.

6. Keluarga Tahir (USD 3.3 million/IDR 4.7 trillion)

Dato Sri Tahir is the owner of the Mayapada Group business group. He built his business empire through several sectors, such as banking, print media and pay-TV, property, hospitals, and duty-free shopping (DFS) chain stores.

5. Chairul Tanjung (USD 4.8 million/IDR 6.9 trillion)

This conglomerate has tasted the bureaucratic seat as the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs (Coordinating Minister for the Economy). He filled the position to replace Hatta Rajasa from 19 May 2014 to 20 October 2014.

However, the senior entrepreneur is a true entrepreneur. The first venture he developed professionally was under the auspices of the Para Group.

This conglomerate company has Para Inti Holdindo as the main holding company, which oversees several sub-holding companies, namely Para Global Investindo (financial business), Para Investindo (media and investment), and Para Inti Propertindo (property).

On December 1, 2011, Chairul Tanjung inaugurated the change of Para Group to CT Corp. CT Corp consists of three sub-holding companies, namely Mega Corp, Trans Corp, and CT Global Resources which cover financial services, media, retail, lifestyle, entertainment, and natural resources.

4. Sri Prakash Lohia (USD 6.5 million/IDR 9.4 trillion)

Sri Prakash Lohia is an immigrant from India who is determined to change his destiny. He is also the person most responsible for the establishment of Indorama Corporation, a leading petrochemical and textile company.

It didn't take long for the Indorama company he founded to grow rapidly to become the largest supplier of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin in the world.

3. Prajogo Pangestu (USD 6.5 million/IDR 9.4 trillion)

Prajogo Pangestu is the founder of PT Barito Pacific Tbk, the largest petrochemical company in Indonesia. This corporation is based in Jakarta and owns power plants and plastic-producing assets

In 2019, the Barito group of companies reported their revenues of touching the USD 2.4 billion mark. Meanwhile, Barito's business division consists of several sub-units with the main subsidiary, Chandra Asri Petrochemical.

2. Michael Bambang Hartono (USD 19.7 million/IDR 28.5 trillion)

If you participated in the 2018 Asian Games, Michael Bambang Hartono's name went viral because he became one of the Indonesian contingents in the sport of bridge.

The main business he has built is a tobacco processing business under the auspices of the Djarum Group. Together with his younger brother, Robert Budi Hartono, he later founded another company, namely PT Dwimuria Investama Andalan.

This business entity was then used by the Hartono duo to acquire 54.95 percent of the shares of PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA), one of the brightest issuers on the stock exchange floor.

1. Robert Budi Hartono

He is the younger brother of Michael Hartono and has the main business of the Djarum Group cigarette factory. The richest man in Indonesia is also the controller of BCA as the largest shareholder.

In addition, The Hartono clan owns an oil palm plantation of 65.000 hectares in West Kalimantan since 2008, as well as a number of properties, including owners of Grand Indonesia and an electronics company.

One of the Djarum Group businesses in this sector operates under the banner of Polytron which has been operating for more than 30 years.

The Polytron company is now also producing cell phones which previously only produced air conditioners, refrigerators, video and audio products, and dispensers.

Through their newly created company, Global Digital Prima Ventures, Global Digital Niaga (Blibli.com), they also bought Kaskus, Indonesia's most popular website.

Robert really likes badminton. Starting as a hobby, he then founded PB Djarum in 1969. One of the badminton players who came from PB Djarum is Liem Swie King, who is known by the nickname King Smash.