Prajogo Pangestu
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Prajogo Pangestu is a timber tycoon in Indonesia
of Hakka Chinese
origin. He is the head of the Barito Pacific group of companies.
In the 1970s, he traded timber in Kalimantan
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One of the companies controlled by Prajogo, PT Barito Pacific Timber, as of 1993 was the largest company on the Jakarta Stock Exchange
.
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
of Hakka Chinese
Hakka people
The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....
origin. He is the head of the Barito Pacific group of companies.
In the 1970s, he traded timber in Kalimantan
Kalimantan
In English, the term Kalimantan refers to the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, while in Indonesian, the term "Kalimantan" refers to the whole island of Borneo....
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One of the companies controlled by Prajogo, PT Barito Pacific Timber, as of 1993 was the largest company on the Jakarta Stock Exchange
Jakarta Stock Exchange
Jakarta Stock Exchange or in Indonesian Bursa Efek Jakarta was a stock exchange based in Jakarta, Indonesia, before it merged with the Surabaya Stock Exchange to form the Indonesian Stock Exchange.-History:...
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