Om Liem Final Journey

June 20, 2012

Passing on at the grand old age of 96 in Singapore, Liem Sioe Liong or Sudono Salim left indelible footprints in the areas of Indonesian business and politics. The many and diverse businesses of the tycoon, a man born in Fujian, China, on July 16, 1916, ebbed and flowed in tandem with former president Suhartos meteoric rise and fall. The two got acquainted with one other when Suharto commanded the Diponegoro Military Division in Central Java duri

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