More than 30 years ago, Kaharudin Ongko made a bold speech. At the beginning of 1972, he had just been installed as President Director of Bank Umum Nasional, known then as Bunas before it was later abbreviated to BUN. "Nothing is impossible in this world," he declared, convincingly.

Ongko has always been full of ambition since his youth. And he would stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

Ong Ka Huat—his parents' name for Ongko—was