Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group

This 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, instinct and networking skills, Liem rose from being an obscure, small-scale trader in the 1950s to become an important pillar of support for President Suharto in the mid-1960s.