Kretek are cigarettes of Indonesian origin, made with a blend of tobacco, cloves, and other flavors. It could be with filter or unfiltered. The word "kretek" itself is an onomatopoetic term for the crackling sound of burning cloves.
Sudono Salim or Lim Sioe Liong was an Indonesian banker and businessman. He was the richest individual in Indonesia. He was the founder and chairman of the conglomerate Salim Group before handing over its management to his youngest son Anthoni Salim in 1992.
Como 1907, commonly referred to as Como, is an Italian professional football club based in Como, Lombardy. The club competes in the Serie A, the first tier of Italian football.
Eka Tjipta Widjaja, born Oei Ek Tjong, was an Indonesian businessman who founded the Sinar Mas Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Indonesia. After immigrating to Indonesia with his family when he was a child, Widjaja became a member of the PCC, traded copra in the mid-1950s, moved into the palm oil industry soon after, started a paper factory in the 1970s, and then entered financial services in the 1980s. At the time of his death, Sinar Mas had interests in paper, real estate, financial services, agribusiness, and telecom with holdings primarily in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and China, and Widjaja was listed by Forbes as the third-richest person in Indonesia with an estimated net worth of US$8.6 billion.
Black billionaires are individuals who are of predominantly African ancestry with a net worth of at least US$1 billion.
PB Djarum is an Indonesian badminton club in Kudus, Central Java. The club was founded at the Djarum brak located at Jl. Bitingan Lama No. 35 in Kudus in 1969. Djarum's CEO, Budi Hartono, encouraged the use of an on-site badminton court among his employees. A young athlete, Liem Swie King, played well, leading Budi Hartono to seriously develop the Kudus community's activities into the PB Djarum organization.
PT Djarum is an Indonesian kretek manufacturer and conglomerate based in Kudus, Central Java. It produces dozens of domestic and international brands. Djarum Black, Super, and L.A. Lights are among the most popular products of Djarum. Under its direct parent, PT Dwimuria Investama Andalan, it has non-cigarette business lines in technology, banking, and food. The company owns the PB Djarum, a professional badminton club, the Italian football club Como, and was the main sponsor of Liga 1, Indonesia's top football league from 2005 to 2011.
Djarum Black is an Indonesian brand of kretek, currently owned and manufactured by Djarum.
There are approximately 61.4 million smokers in Indonesia, among a population of 273 million people. Around 63% of men and 5% of women report smoking, equating to 34% of the population. The majority, 88% of Indonesian smokers, use clove-flavoured kreteks. Kretek manufacturers directly employ over 180,000 people in Indonesia and an additional 10 million indirectly. Indonesia is the fifth largest tobacco market in the world, and in 2008 over 165 billion cigarettes were sold in the country.
PT Bentoel Internasional Investama, commonly known as Bentoel Group, is an Indonesian tobacco company. It is the second-largest in the year of establishment and fourth-largest tobacco firm in Indonesia after Sampoerna, Gudang Garam and Djarum in terms of market share. In 2009, London-based British American Tobacco, the world's second-largest tobacco company, acquired a 99.74% stake in Bentoel. In early 2010, the company was merged with PT BAT Indonesia Tbk, with Bentoel continued to operate as the survived entity; however Bentoel had revive the BAT Indonesia name ever since.
Djoko Susanto, born Kwok Kwie Fo is an Indonesian entrepreneur, successful businessman and well known as a new billionaire of Indonesia since 2011. Susanto was the owner of Alfamart, retail business with mini-marts concept.
Sri Prakash Lohia is an Indian-born Indonesian billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Indorama Corporation, a diversified petrochemical and textile company.
Michael Bambang Hartono is an Indonesian billionaire heir and businessman.
Oei Wie Gwan was a Chinese Indonesian businessman, originally from the Lasem Regency of Central Java Provincial Region of Indonesia who founded the Djarum company.
Djarum Foundation is a non-profit organization from Indonesia active domestically in the areas of sport, environment, education, culture and social. President Director of the Djarum Foundation is Victor Hartono. The organization was officiated on 30 April 1986 based on informal activities of the two brothers Michael Bambang Hartono and Robert Budi Hartono starting from 1951.
Heru Budi Hartono is an Indonesian bureaucrat who has been the acting Governor of Jakarta since 2022 and Head of the Presidential Secretariat since 2017. He was the former Head of Jakarta Regional Asset Financial Management Agency under Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama between 2015 and 2017. A former mayor of North Jakarta, Heru was appointed by Governor Basuki to be a candidate for deputy governor in the 2017 Jakarta Regional Head Elections if he only advanced through an independent path. He is currently the acting Governor of Jakarta replacing Anies Baswedan since 17 October 2022, until the 2024 Jakarta election.
Jogi Hendra Atmadja is an Indonesian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of Mayora Indah, one of Indonesia's largest food companies. He is ranked as the 10th-richest person in Indonesia by Forbes magazine, with a net worth of US$3.6 billion as of April 2023.
Polytron is an electronics company from Indonesia. The company was founded on 18 September 1975 in Kudus, Central Java under the name Indonesian Electronic & Engineering Limited, then on September 18, 1976, changed its name to Hartono Istana Electronic Limited, then in 2000 merged and became Hartono Istana Teknologi Limited which is a subsidiary of Djarum Group.
