Murdaya Poo

JAKARTA (December 1, 2016) – Due to favorable economic conditions, more than half of the country’s 50 wealthiest on this year’s Forbes Indonesia Rich List saw their wealth rise. The combined net worth of the country’s top 50 richest rose to US$99 billion, from $92 billion last year. The complete [...]

Amnesty windfall.

When it comes to creating wealth, America still reigns supreme. The U.S. boasts 540 billionaires, more than any other country on the planet and more than all of Europe combined. Here's the full list of every American with a ten-digit fortune.

Buoyed by a wave of new faces from China, the up-and-coming Asia-Pacific region surpassed the United States in billionaires on the newly released 2015 Forbes Billionaires List. The Asia-Pacific, underpinned by China and India,  had 562 billionaires, compared with 536 for the United States.  Last year, the United States had 492 members and the Asia-Pacific region had [...]

High-priced nuptials.

The cover of the Forbes Billionaires List issue back in 1996 asked the question: “Is the 21st the Asian Century?”  In the five years to 1996, the U.S. share of the world’s billionaires had edged down to 33% from 35%.   Asia, including Japan, had increased to 28% from 25%. Though [...]

Asia-Pacific is home to 386 billionaires, 71 more than a year ago and an increase of 22%.

License for sale (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Indonesian timber-to-IT tycoon Murdaya Poo, whose wealth we estimated last year at $1.5 billion, once claimed that his wife Siti Hartati Murdaya Poo was the driving force behind his success. That drive has been laid bare in a Jakarta court where a high-profile corruption case ended [...]

The Hartono brothers lead the way with a net worth of $11 billion.

The collective net worth of $42 billion is double last year's.

It was a stellar year for Indonesia's richest as their fortunes soared to new heights and the minimum net worth to make the list quadrupled.

The net worth of our wealthiest Indonesians has taken a beating.

The total net worth of the nation's richest is $21 billion, down from $40 billion.

In our gatefold list of Indonesia's 40 Richest we also take a look at the survivors of the 1997 Asian economic crisis.

In our gatefold list of Indonesia's 40 Richest we also take a look at the survivors of the 1997 Asian economic crisis.

The wealthiest Indonesians are worth a combined $40 billion.