MOHAMMAD BAEDOWY,USED PLASTIC
Cimuning’s Prince of Bottles

Frustrated at being an office employee, a decade ago Mohammad Baedowy decided to go into the used plastic business. Today he is a millionaire and a dedicated environmentalist.

December 22, 2009

ON Tuesday last week, Mohammad Baedowy rode in his brand-new metallic gray Toyota Fortuner car, speeding across the Bogor-Jakarta toll road, driven by his chauffer Agung.

Just four months old, it was the newest automobile parked alongside two others—a Volvo and a Kijang—at the front of Baedowy’s home at the Dukuh Zamrud housing estate in Bekasi, West Java. Just 10 minutes’ walk away, a house three times bigger than this one was nearing c

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