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Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan usually addresses his close friends as hopeng. In Chinese, hopeng comes from the word hao pengyou, which means good friend. The two have indeed long been friends. "Rizal Ramli is one of his hopeng. Hopeng is what Pak Luhut calls his old friends," said Jusman Syafii Jamal, a colleague of Luhut and Rizal, speaking to Tempo last week.
Jusman was transportation minister from 2007 to 2009 and is currently CEO of Toba Sejahtera, a business group established by Luhut. This company operates in coal mining, oil and gas, electricity generators, plantations and forestry. Jusman is also a graduate of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), in the same graduating class as Rizal Ramli.
August 25, 2015
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan usually addresses his close friends as hopeng. In Chinese, hopeng comes from the word hao pengyou, which means good friend. The two have indeed long been friends. "Rizal Ramli is one of his hopeng. Hopeng is what Pak Luhut calls his old friends," said Jusman Syafii Jamal, a colleague of Luhut and Rizal, speaking to Tempo last week.
Jusman was transportation minister from 2007 to 2009 and is currently CEO of Toba Sejahtera, a
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