Rise and Fall of a Friendship

DESPITE both deciding to settle in the city of Kudus in Central Java, after leaving China to find a better life in Indonesia, it was to be 30 years before Liem Sioe Liong and Liem Oen Kian became business partners. It was not until 1968, in fact, when these two businessmen had already changed their names to Sudono Salim and Djuhar Sutanto, that they were brought together through the matchmaking of the then President Suharto, to set up a bus

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