THE big tree started with one name: Achmad Bakrie. The 7-year-old child was a small farmers boy who went round Kalianda, South Lampung, every day, selling bread carried on a winnow on the head. The year was 1923.

From selling the breadunder a sharing systemBakrie braved himself to be a vegetables agent. In dawns early hours, he was already waiting for farmers who were going to sell their harvests. He started this since he entered the Holandsch In