Chronicles of a Three-Generation Dynasty
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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
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