Eka Tjipta Widjaja, Indonesian - founder and chairman of the Sinar Mas Group (1921-2019)

I interviewed Eka Tjipta Widjaja around 1995 when he was in his mid 70s and had already started handing over day to day running of Sinar Mas (https://www.sinarmas.com/en/) to his sons.  His was a remarkable life and I must admit I was amazed at the ingenuity and business acumen he demonstrated from an early age and how he worked his way through his early failures.  This podcast covers his chapter in my book Added Value -the life stories of leading South East Asian business people published by Murmeli in 1999.Please note that these interviews took place some time ago - over 25 years ago in the case of the South East Asian life story book and around 10 to 15 years ago in the case of the two Indian life story books.  However, their stories are correct to the time of the interviews and the objective is to demonstrate the entrepreneurial skills they exhibited at the time of the interviews in building their businesses.