Sudono Salim or Lim Sioe Liong was an Indonesian banker and businessman.
11 Facts About Sudono Salim
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Sudono Salim was the founder and chairman of the conglomerate Salim Group before handing over its management to his youngest son Anthoni Salim in 1992.
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In 1916, Salim was born as Lim Sioe Liong in Fuqing, Fujian, China.
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Sudono Salim denied allegations that he provided arms to Indonesian soldiers to resist Dutch forces.
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In 1952, after moving to Jakarta, Sudono Salim expanded his peanut oil trading company by establishing connections with other Overseas Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong and Singapore respectively.
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Sudono Salim later expanded his commercial activities into textile manufacturing and financial services, eventually being behind the establishment of Indonesia's largest private bank, Bank Central Asia in 1957.
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In 1968, after a corporate merger, Sudono Salim gained the rights to a establish a corporate monopoly on clove importation.
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Sudono Salim established Bogasari, a joint venture with another businessman of Hokchia ancestry where the company later became Indonesia's largest miller, producer, and supplier of flour.
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Sudono Salim eventually settled in Los Angeles in the United States.
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On 10 June 2012, a month before his 96th birthday, Sudono Salim passed away from natural causes in Raffles Hospital, Singapore.
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Sudono Salim is buried at the Lim Chu Kang Cemetery.