Liem Sioe Liong's Salim Group YQCR storms rage

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Liem Sioe Liong's Salim Group YQCR storms rageThis is the story of Liem Sioe Liong, a penniless migrant from China who arrived in Java in 1938 and became the wealthiest businessman in Suharto's Indonesia. Through serendipity, good instincts and networking skills, Liem rose from being an obscure, small scale trader in the 1950s to become an important pillar of support for Suharto, who gained power amid murky circumstances and replaced Sukarno as Indonesia's president in the mid 1960s. The text has