Six Indonesians in 'Forbes' top 200
Six Indonesians in 'Forbes' top 200
NEW YORK (Agencies): The Wonowidjojo family, owner of Gudang
Garam cigarette giant, is one of six Indonesians listed in this
year's Forbes' world's top 200 billionaires, AP reported
yesterday.
The magazine put the family's net asset at $7.3 billion, and
ranked it 24th in the list of the world's richest individuals and
families.
Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates heads the list for the
third straight year and he's pulling away from the pack as his
software empire rides the stock market's record-setting wave.
Gates' net worth doubled to $36.4 billion over the past year.
That put him nearly $9 billion ahead of the second-place Walton
family, the $27.6 billion heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, Forbes
said in its 11th annual rankings, released Sunday.
Other Indonesians in the Forbes' 200 are Eka Tjipta Widjaja
(ranked 45th), Liem Sioe Liong (68th), Mohamad (Bob) Hasan
(99th), Putera Sampoerna (142nd) and Mochtar Riady (176th).
Last year, Asians made up half the top 10 list, but this year
only two were members: Hong Kong real estate magnates Lee Shau
Kee, No. 4 with $14.7 billion, and the Kwok brothers, No. 8 at
$12.3 billion.
Of the American entries, investor Warren Buffett was No. 3 at
$23.2 billion and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen stood at No. 6
with $14.1 billion. The other Americans in the top 10 were the
Haas family of Levi Strauss, seventh with $12.3 billion, and the
Mars candy family, at No. 9 with $12 billion.
In fifth place were the Oeri, Hoffman and Sacher families of
Switzerland, heirs of the Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche, with
$14.3 billion. Rounding out the top 10 was the Quandt family of
Germany, which owns half of BMW and is worth $11.7 billion.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, the Japanese real estate and transportation
mogul who was once the world's richest businessman, slid to No.
22 from seventh last year as his country's property market
continued to falter.
Hong Kong placed seven billionaires on the list, including
Nina Wang, the world's second richest woman. Her net worth of $7
billion from running the Chinachem real estate empire ranks
second behind Liliane Bettencourt, the $8.4 billion heiress to
the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune.
Forbes provided a separate ranking of dictators and royalty,
excluding them from the global billionaires list since they have
no direct role in managing businesses.
The Sultan of Brunei, worth $38 billion, heads the list. Cuban
president Fidel Castro is No. 10 with $1.4 billion.
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