More than half of the Chinese entrepreneurs in the 2021 Indonesian Rich List are from Fujian and Guangdong, and two brothers from Jinjiang dominate the list.

Indonesia in Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse countries in the world. The unique culture and heritage of each region attracts many global tourists. Wonderful Indonesia is also the country with the largest number of Chinese in Southeast Asia. Due to historical reasons, it is incredible that Chinese are mostly engaged in business in Indonesia, and the Chinese economy is an important part of the Indonesian economy.

On the 2021 Forbes Global Rich List, there are 22 Indonesian rich people on the list, more than half of whom are Chinese entrepreneurs, which shows the weight and influence of Indonesian Chinese businessmen.

Chinese businessmen from Fujian and Guangdong are the most wealthy, with two brothers from Jinjiang dominating the list

Huang Huixiang

On the 2021 Forbes rich list, there are 22 Indonesian rich people on the list. The minimum threshold for the list is US$1.1 billion. Among them, R. Budi Hartono, an Indonesian businessman from Jinjiang, is the richest man in Indonesia with a net worth of US$20.5 billion, followed by his brother Michael Hartono in second place. , the wealth on the list is US$19.7 billion. ,

Huang Huixiang and Huang Huizhong inherited the kretek cigarette manufacturing company Djarum from their father. However, compared to tobacco, the biggest asset of the Huang brothers, Indonesia’s richest man, is the banking industry. The family’s China Bank Central Asia is Indonesia's largest private bank. The group has two banks, Bank Hagakjta and Haga Bank, across Indonesia.

Diversified management is a major operating feature of overseas Chinese businessmen. Brothers Huang Huixiang and Huang Huizhong also operate diversified industries such as real estate, hotels and shopping malls. PT Bukit Mulia, owned by the family, is one of the largest business groups in Indonesia. one.

Ranking third on the Forbes Indonesian Rich List is Sri Prakash Lohia, the Indonesian petrochemical tycoon, with a net worth of US$6.5 billion. He holds a petrochemical company listed in Bangkok, Thailand. The company has a significant stake in Indorama Ventures.

Indonesian “Timber King” Peng Yunpeng and his family

Indonesian “Timber King”, Indonesian “Plywood King”, Prajogo Pangestu, Chairman of Balido Pacific Group, and Plaka Shi Lohia is tied for third on the Indonesian rich list, with a net worth of US$6.5 billion.

Peng Yunpeng is originally from Xiaozheng Village, Dongkeng Town, Luhe County, Guangdong Province, China. His father Peng Rui was born in a poor farmer's family. In his early years, he traveled across the ocean to Indonesia to make a living. He first worked as a tapper in a rubber plantation, and then Worked as a tailor.

In the early 1960s, Peng Yunpeng, who had only graduated from junior high school, came to Jakarta and worked in the Zaiyuandi Group, a subsidiary of Indonesian wood industry giant Huang Shuangan. In 1977, he started his own business and founded Balido Pacific Company. Today, this company It has become the world's largest plywood manufacturer and exporter.

Peng Yunpeng and his wife Zhang Minglian returned to their hometown of Xiaozheng Natural Village, Fuxin Village, Dongkeng Town, Luhe, to visit relatives and ancestors in 1993. Last year, he donated one million US dollars to support China's fight against the epidemic. Peng Yunpeng's Balido Pacific Group is also a diversified comprehensive group with a number of listed companies. In addition to logging, plywood, and papermaking, it has also made achievements in banking, hotels, and real estate investment.

Chairul Tanjung, founder and chairman of Indonesian CT Group, ranks fifth, with a net worth of US$4.8 billion.

Weng Junmin (left), his son Weng Dachuan and grandson Chen Dongliang in the ancestral home of Dr. Li Wenzheng

The 69-year-old Guosen Group Chairman Weng Junmin and his family are on the list with a net worth of US$3.3 billion. Ong Junmin (Tahir), who was awarded Datuk Seri by the Sultan of Malaysia, was once the first Chinese person to be expected to serve as the Vice President of Indonesia. His ancestral home is Fuqing, Fujian.

Weng Junmin is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Indonesian Guosen Group, the Chairman of the Indonesian National Bank, the Chairman of the Indonesian Chinese Daily International Daily Newspaper Group, and the founder of the Indonesian Ong Junmin Foundation. He is also known as " Indonesia’s great philanthropist”.

Weng Junmin was born in Surabaya, Indonesia in 1952. He is a second-generation Chinese in Indonesia. His ancestral home is Fuqing, Fujian. He graduated from Nanyang University in Singapore and San Francisco, Golden Gate University in the United States. In 1988, he started by running a car sales company. After the entrepreneurial failure, he turned to the clothing manufacturing industry and later entered the financial industry. MAYAPADA Bank was established in Jakarta in 1990. At present, Weng Junmin is the major shareholder of Indonesia's largest Chinese daily "International Daily News" that he acquired, and is also a shareholder of Indonesia's "Forbes" magazine. In addition, Weng Junmin's industries cover many fields such as finance, medical care, retail, real estate and media.

Weng Junmin’s ancestral home is Qilin Village, Xincuo Town, Fuqing City, Fujian Province. His father Weng Wenying went to Nanyang to make a living in his early years. Weng Junmin is the son-in-law of Li Wenzheng, the "Indonesian Money King" from Putian. His father-in-law Li Wenzheng's ancestral home is Jiangkou, Putian.

Ranking seventh and eighth on the rich list are Eddy Kusnadi Sariaatmadja and Jerry Ng, with net worths of US$2.5 billion and US$2 billion respectively.

Wu Shengfu

Among the top ten richest people in Indonesia by Forbes, Wu Shengfu (Martua Sitorus) ranks 9th. In 1991, he co-founded "Wilmar International" with Guo Kongfeng, nephew of "Sugar King" Robert Kuok. ", is the only overseas Chinese enterprise among the world's five largest grain merchants, and is also one of the listed companies with the largest market value on the Singapore Exchange. Wu Shengfu is currently the director and co-chief operating officer of Wilmar International.

61-year-old Wu Shengfu, who currently has 4 children, is originally from Sanwu Village, Cizao Town, Jinjiang City, Fujian Province. In the Indonesian palm industry, Wu Shengfu is one of the experts. He entered this industry after graduating from university.

Ranked 10th is 71-year-old Djoko Susanto, an Indonesian supermarket tycoon with a net worth of US$1.7 billion. He was born in Jakarta in 1950 and his ancestral home is Marijuana Town, Dabu County, Guangdong. He is a Hakka and a self-made second-generation Chinese entrepreneur in Indonesia.

Guo Guihe, owner of Aifa supermarket chain

Guo Guihe’s father Guo Mengduo (1903-1989) and mother Huang Suoniang (1914-1979) were both originally from Dabu, Guangdong The Hakka people sailed south to Indonesia in the 1930s, got married and started a family in Yecheng, and later settled in Beidaoyao, where they made a living by running grocery stores.

Guo Mengduo fathered 5 sons and 5 daughters. Guo Guihe ranks sixth among his brothers and sisters, and his nickname is "Agui". In the 1970s, when Guo Guihe was running his family's "Fountain of Happiness" grocery store, he had been thinking about how to expand his business. Later, he discovered the potential of the cigarette market and gained the trust and support of many agents in Jakarta, especially Indonesian History The oldest kretek cigarette manufacturer - Sambaolin Company of the Lin Tianbao family. Sampoerna is a tobacco company with a history of more than a hundred years and a top wealthy family that has been rich for three generations.

Guo Guihe, who started his career in tobacco wholesale, is known as the "God of Tobacco" in Indonesia. Later, he went deep into the chain retail industry. His family owned more than 1,200 chain supermarkets and became the leader in Indonesia's retail industry. Giant.

Guo Guihe’s Alfamart convenience supermarket is not only opened in major cities in Indonesia, but also reaches remote areas.

Currently, Guo Guihe and Chen Lizhen have five children, all of whom have successful careers. In the 1980s, with the support of his wife Chen Lizhen, Guo Guihe developed the "Charity Education" educational institution. This private educational institution covers primary and secondary schools to universities. It established education in order to make up for his regret of missing school in his early years. Let more people have the opportunity to study.

Indonesia’s “Money King” and founder of Lippo Group Li Wenzheng

Among the 22 Indonesian richest people on the list, the oldest is 92-year-old Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono (Lin Lianxing). Lin Lianxing, also known as "Lin Mulu", is originally from Fuqing City, Fujian Province. He serves as the honorary chairman of the Indonesian Chinese Association, the first chairman of the permanent honorary bureau of the Indonesian Lin Clan Association, and the honorary chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. His net worth is US$1.1 billion.

The second oldest rich man is Indonesia’s “Money King” and founder of Lippo Group, 92-year-old Li Wenzheng (Mochtar Riady) and his family. He is on the same list as Weng Junmin and his son-in-law. A good story.

Li Wenzheng’s ancestral home is Xindian Village, Jiangkou Town, Hanjiang District, Putian City, Fujian Province. Putian was called Xinghua in ancient times. The doorstep of his ancestral home is Xinghua Bay. Xinghua Bay is adjacent to Fuqing Bay, and Weng Junmin from Fuqing became the beloved son-in-law of Li Wenzheng from Putian, which also has a geographical relationship.

In fact, Li Wenzheng and another Fuqing native, Lin Shaoliang, the former richest man in Indonesia, have a close brotherly relationship. They worked together to establish Central Asia Bank and also co-founded Lippo Group.

Li Wenzheng was born in May 1929 in Malang Town, 80 kilometers south of the provincial capital Surabaya in East Java. His father Li Yamei and his mother Shi Bilan crossed the river mouth and moved south in their early years and immigrated to East Java, Indonesia. A grocery store selling batik Indonesian floral dresses and daily necessities was opened in Malang, Java. Li Yamei has 2 sons and 3 daughters, and Li Wenzheng is the third oldest.

During World War II, Li Wenzheng returned to China and studied at the Department of Philosophy at the National Central University (Note: Today's "Southeast University") in Nanjing. Later, he moved to Hong Kong and returned to East Java. I work in a store run by my sister and her husband. Li Wenzheng, who was appreciated by the Li family, married Li Limei, the daughter of Li Jiaye and Li Wang's twelfth sister, in 1956.

After their marriage, Li Wenzheng and his wife went to Jakarta to make a living. They first co-opened a small store, and then co-founded the "Oriental Three" company and founded "Peace Shipping". After ten years, he did not have much savings. . Entering the banking industry is also an accident.

Li Wenzheng is known as the "Indonesian Money King" who is good at healing banks.

In 1960, Pilama Shari, the manager of Indonesia's McMurran Bank, which was on the verge of bankruptcy due to poor operations, came to visit and asked Li Wenzheng to invest US$200,000 to save the bank. Li Wenzheng was a little stunned at first, but he suddenly changed his mind. Didn't his dream of becoming a banker come to pass? As a result, Li Wenzheng subscribed for 20% of the bank's equity and served as a director; his US$200,000 investment was mostly borrowed from fellow Fujian residents with whom he had good connections. Later, the bank came back to life.

Tan Kong Hoe, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Singapore Golden Eagle Group

Tan Kong Hoe, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Singapore Golden Eagle Group, with a net worth of US$1.4 billion, has been the richest man in Indonesia many times and is also a Putian native. Li Wenzheng is also from Jiangkou, his ancestral home is Shixi Village, Jiangkou Town, Hanjiang District, Putian, Fujian.

Chen Jianghe was born in Indonesia in 1949. In 1937, his father Chen Jinrong went to Nanyang to make a living. When Chen Jianghe was 17 years old, his father Chen Jinrong was bedridden due to overwork. He was forced to drop out of school. Following his father's business, he hired three employees to supply motorcycle parts to Indonesian Petroleum Company. He started by contracting oil projects, and by the time he was 26, he had earned US$10 million.

Singapore Golden Eagle Group, founded by Chen Jianghe, is a diversified multinational industrial group integrating forest pulp and paper, agricultural products industry, special dissolving wood pulp and cellulose fiber, and energy development. Its total assets exceed 18 billion US dollars and more than 60,000 employees worldwide. After the 1990s, he aggressively entered the Chinese market with a total investment of more than 50 billion yuan.

Chen Jianghe, who is enthusiastic about public welfare and charity, and his wife Huang Rui'e founded the " Chen Jianghe Foundation" in 1981.

Currently, Golden Eagle Group has eight major companies, namely Asia Pacific Resources Group, Asia Pacific Senbo Group, Asia Plantation Group, Summit Group, Bass Group, Asia Pacific Rayon (APR), and Pacific Oil and Gas Co., Ltd.

Chen Jianghe and his wife Huang Rui'e have four children. In order to train the second generation successor, he once asked his second daughter to do volunteer work in Cambodia, and sent his youngest son Chen Jiansheng to work in a remote town. Family tradition and family motto are the beacons that guide the family forward. Chen Jianghe personally established the "Chen family motto". The first article is "To love your children but not teach them is like not loving them; to teach them poorly is like not loving them." Why not teach? ”

Chen Jianghe said: If you really love your child, teach him well; if you don’t teach him well, it is not true love; if the teaching method is incorrect or the teaching is wrong, you cannot. Consider it a success.

Fu Zhikuan (2nd from left), founder and president of Indonesian Media Group (CCM)

Fu Zhikuan (Murdaya), founder and president of Indonesian Media Group (CCM), was born in Meixian, Guangdong Poo), with a net worth of $1.2 billion.

The 80-year-old Fu Zhikuan family has diversified operations. CCM Group is China Xidian’s partner in Indonesia.

It is necessary to mention that in March 2014, former Indonesian President Yudhoyono Yudhoyono issued Presidential Decision No. 12, announcing the revocation of the document circulated by the Cabinet Presidium in 1967 and officially abolishing the official term "Tjina/China" /Cina" (China), re-adopted the word Tionghoa (China) as the title of the Chinese, and at the same time changed Republik Rakyat China back to Republik Rakyat Tiongkok.

An article in the "Jakarta Post" later stated that the change of title was closely related to the unremitting efforts of the Indonesian Chinese themselves. In addition, it was the former chairman of the Indonesian Chinese Federation and the Indonesian Nation Construction Foundation. Continuous lobbying by founder Wang Youshan and former member of parliament Fu Zhikuan finally convinced President Yudhoyono Yudhoyono to abolish the use of "China".

Remember this Chinese entrepreneur from Meixian County - Fu Zhikuan! The Chinese in Indonesia have experienced hundreds of years of vicissitudes and hardships. From Cina (China) to Tionghoa (China), this change of title marks another important step for the Chinese, as an important ethnic group in Indonesia, to obtain due respect and normal political and social status.

The last two Indonesian richest people on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people are also Chinese entrepreneurs, namely Low Tuck Kwong and Hary Tanoesoedibjo. The richest Chinese in the country all have a net worth of US$1.1 billion.

Liu Deguang was born in Singapore and later naturalized in Indonesia. He is a famous "coal boss". The 55-year-old Chen Mingli is a well-known "media boss" in Indonesia and the president of Global Mediacom, an influential media company in Indonesia. Its MNC TV Group includes many well-known TV stations and influential newspapers and is one of the giants of Indonesia's media industry. one.

Why are there so many rich people in Indonesia from Fujian and Guangdong provinces?

Dr. Li Wenzheng, founder of Lippo Group and former chairman of the board of directors of the University of Indonesia (right)

Before the publication of "The Autobiography of Li Wenzheng" at the end of 2015, the founder of Lippo Group in 1986 Li Wenzheng has a family of 96 people with four generations living under one roof. He wrote in the "Preface": "I was born in 1929. Since I can remember, what I have experienced is war, escape, disaster, death and poverty. The journey of life is bumpy, full of variables, and the future is always It’s unpredictable.”

In his autobiography, Li Wenzheng shared the history of his life’s struggle. He said: Lippo Group grew with the economic and political growth of Indonesia. It can be said that we have gone through hardships and grown together with the Indonesian Communist Party and the National People's Congress.

Over the past few decades, we have also experienced ups and downs, and through hard work and hard work, we have made Lippo what it is today.

Li Wenzheng said: I spent my college years in China. In 1950, I returned to Indonesia. Indonesia's independence was recognized at the end of December 1949, and Indonesia officially became an independent country in 1950. Indonesia's independent development coincided with the beginning of my career. He wrote meaningfully: "Every success and failure in my career is actually a microcosm and portrayal of different eras in Indonesian society. Sometimes, I am at the forefront of the times; sometimes, I am involved in the big waves of the times. "

As Indonesian Chinese businessman Li Wenzheng said, the history of Chinese in Indonesia is actually a microcosm of Indonesia's modern history. After the 1980s, as the Indonesian government relaxed the naturalization of overseas Chinese, the vast majority of them became Indonesian citizens, and the Chinese economy essentially evolved from the overseas Chinese economy to the Indonesian economy. However, even now, Indonesian Chinese businessmen still face many development difficulties.

Huang Huizhong, the richest man in Indonesia

Why are there so many rich people from Fujian and Guangdong provinces in Indonesia?

Among the 22 Indonesian richest people entering the 2021 Forbes Global Rich List, 12 are Chinese, more than half of them. Among them, in addition to Liu Deguang and Chen Mingli, who are from other provinces, there are seven Indonesian Chinese rich people from Fujian on the list, namely: Indonesia's richest man Huang Huizhong and his brother Huang Huixiang, whose ancestral home is Jinjiang, Fujian; Weng Junmin, whose ancestral home is Fuqing, Fujian; Wu Shengfu , whose ancestral home is Jinjiang, Fujian; Li Wenzheng, whose ancestral home is Putian, Fujian; Chen Jianghe, whose ancestral home is Putian, Fujian; and Lin Lianxing, whose ancestral home is Fuqing, Fujian.

Three rich Indonesian Chinese from Guangdong are on the list, namely: Peng Yunpeng, whose ancestral home is Luhe, Guangdong; Guo Guihe, whose ancestral home is Dapu, Guangdong; and Fu Zhikuan, whose ancestral home is Meixian, Guangdong.

Indonesia is the country with the largest number of Chinese in Southeast Asia, with an estimated 10 million people. In the early days of the establishment of the Republic of Korea, Indonesia adopted a tolerant policy towards the naturalization of overseas Chinese and implemented a nationality law based on the principle of jus soli. At that time, the capital of Indonesia was Yogyakarta, and because of this, most Chinese were concentrated in Java. From the 1950s to the end of the 1970s, anti-Chinese sentiment was raging in Indonesia, jus soli doctrine was replaced by jus sanguinis, and the naturalization of overseas Chinese was restricted. During this period, many overseas Chinese in Indonesia were forced to move to Singapore, Malaysia and other places. Some returned to their home countries.

China and Indonesia restored diplomatic relations in 1990 (note: the two countries severed diplomatic relations in 1967). During Indonesia's democratization process, the status of the Chinese was restored, and their political status and living conditions also underwent tremendous changes. More than half of the Indonesian rich list is Chinese, which is the best demonstration of the economic hard work and hard work of Indonesian Chinese.

Surabaya, Indonesia

Why are there so many rich people from Fujian and Guangdong provinces in Indonesia? The first is the population base. Indonesian Chinese are mostly Fujianese, followed by Cantonese. Currently, the three largest cities in Indonesia are the capital Jakarta, Surabaya and Medan. Surabaya, the second largest city, has about 4 million people, of which more than 1 million are Chinese, and 78% of the economy is controlled by Chinese.

Among the Chinese in Surabaya, about 60% are from southern Fujian, about 30% are from Hakka, and 10% are from other Han ethnic groups. Hakka people have a long history of immigrating to Indonesia, and most of them are Cantonese. According to the "Overseas Chinese Chronicle of Guangdong Province", Hakka people immigrated to Indonesia in the Tang Dynasty. At present, the ancestral places of overseas Hakka people are mostly in Meixian, Hainan, Chaozhou and other places.

Furthermore, Fujianese are at the top of the list of richest people in Indonesia, which is also due to the structure of the wealth pyramid. In the past 100 years or so in modern times, major groups of Chinese people have also brought strong enthusiasm with them when they migrated to Southeast Asia. Culture of place of origin, and the distribution and accumulation of wealth are a blend of historical memory and social status quo. Over the past 100 years, with several waves of immigration, the power, scale and influence of Fujianese, Hakkas, Cantonese and other groups in Southeast Asian countries have been changing.

Today, the Chaoshan people of Guangdong have an unshakable position in the Thai economy, including the Chinese community; similarly, in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the Fujian people have an advantage.

Like the list of richest people in the Philippines, bosses from Jinjiang, Fujian Province also dominate the list.

Living in a foreign country, for most Chinese companies, even in the era of globalization, business networks based on blood, geography, kinship, including the cultural ties of the native culture still exist. This allows them to use the strength and advantages of "grouping" to gain more competitive chips.

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