William Soeryadjaya: "Astra is now just like an SOE"

Nimbly, he goes up and down the stairs. In his twilight years, 80-year-old William Soeryadjaya still moves quickly. "I'm definitely still young," he laughs. Time doesn't seem to have vanquished his spirit, despite the fact that he's currently faced with a bitter reality. Astra, the largest car manufacturer in the country, which he brought up with his own blood, sweat and tears from 1957 and which was wrested away from him in 1992, is

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