From Coffee Traders to Collapse?
October 28, 2008
TWO times now Indonesia has been haunted by a crisis, and the Bakrie family has been hit on both occasions. After being "wiped out" as a result of the monetary crisis that hit Asia in 1997, Bakrie arose again. Ten years later, Forbes magazine declared Aburizal Bakrie, former controller of the Bakrie Group, to be the richest person in Indonesia with total wealth of US$5.4 billion. Bakrie's new venture in the coal business boosted the rapid surge in t
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