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  • Paperback: 574 pages
  • Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (June 9, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9814459577
  • ISBN-13: 978-9814459570
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsBook Review – “Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group: The Business Pillar of Suharto’s Indonesia” (re-posted from my blog)
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In my research and investing I stress three things: people, structure and value. I look for companies that are controlled and managed by quality people, have corporate structures that align minority and majority shareholder interests and trade at valuations that are below fair value if not outright cheap.

This article is about people. Richard Borsuk and Nancy Chng’s Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group: The Business Pillar of Suharto’s Indonesia, is a detailed review of Indonesia’s business environment, economy and politics during Suharto’s 30-year rule. The book is people-centric and a virtual who’s-who in Indonesia.

The first sentence of Chapter One, is as good a summary as it can be, “One hankered after power, the other after money, and when they paired up they made a potent team that kept them on top in Indonesian politics and business respectively for three decades”.

For those who don’t know, Liem Sioe Liong, also known by his Indonesian name Sudono Salim, founded and built the Salim Group into the largest business group in pre-Asian Financial Crisis Indonesia. In my 1991 report on Indonesian business groups I calculated that the group’s turnover to have accounted for a massive 5% of Indonesia’s GDP (publication list is here).

Put another way, companies associated with Liem had turnover equivalent to 1/20th of the world’s fourth largest country’s GDP. Only has Rinat Akhmetov’s SCM group accounted for an equally large concentration of economic control in a reasonably sized country (details here).

I particularly enjoyed the book’s detailed work on Liem’s early years. He was born very poor in rural Fujian province. So poor that his two older sisters were given away.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsAn extraordinary effort
By greg p on February 21, 2015
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a well written documentary style book, full of facts which are easy to understand particularly for those who have lived in Indonesia . Richard clearly has done an extraordinary amount of research to complete such a comprehensive study of not only the Salim Group but the business culture that has developed in Indonesia over the past decades.
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5.0 out of 5 starsbringing events and characters to life as we retrace Liem's footsteps from a poor boy in a Chinese village to founder of the ...
By Veronica Li on September 3, 2014
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"The book is a masterful account of modern Indonesian history, with focus on the role played by Chinese businessmen. Every sentence is a polished gem, bringing events and characters to life as we retrace Liem's footsteps from a poor boy in a Chinese village to founder of the largest business empire in Indonesia. A must-read for understanding Indonesia today."
Veronica Li, Author, Journey across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home
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