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ASIA40-51 Bakrie LO 12/4/08 5:26 PM Page 40 ASIA40-51 Bakrie LO 12/4/08 5:26 PM Page 40 Indonesia’s 40 Richest IS BUSINESS EMPIRE TEETERS, AND 1997–98 financial crisis, threaten foreclosure on the his political capital seems to be billions they’ve risked on him. Politicians lock horns, fading fast. But history, and an testing cabinet loyalties over whether to bail him out. Indonesian proverb, suggests that Increasingly the Bakrie question is framed as a gover- though Aburizal Bakrie is down, nance test for an Indonesia that’s trying to overcome its it’s premature to write him off shadowy past and emerge as a self-confident Asian just yet. Broadly translated, the powerhouse. proverb says that even though “Me?” he asks, sinking deep into an easy chair in an elephant might look skinny, there’s still lots of fat his ministry’s Dutch-colonial-era offices in central Hunder that thick hide. Jakarta. “I have never done that. Never! Never! I am no Indonesians have watched the Bakrie family longer a businessman. I know what [my family] is doing, stampede across their national stage for decades, always but I’m not a businessman at all. I have devoted four years finding a way to flourish whatever the shade of govern- of my life to this job [in the cabinet]. I have never been ment: Sukarno’s eccentric authoritarianism, the Suharto involved in any business discussion.” But then, glancing kleptocracy and the wobbly succession of democrats that at a TV in the corner of his office showing CNBC, he clar- followed. But now, with a presidential vote next year and ifies his statement: “I go to the company office to pray, the global financial crunch slimming down this debt- yes. And if in the evening my brothers would like to re- laden elephant by the day, Bakrie says he won’t stay on port, yes, we discuss, that’s all.” as minister for people’s welfare past the election. That’s With interests from palm oil and coal mining to not to save his ailing business, the wily 62-year-old telecommunications and construction, the Bakrie Group patriarch insists, but to run charities and play with his may be the country’s biggest private enterprise, but is it grandchildren. Indonesians are not so sure about that. too big to fail? Aburizal Bakrie is a born dealmaker who As the government considers whether to rescue the knows how to influence a government his critics say he Bakries for a second time, it may be that Aburizal Bakrie’s bought his way into. He’s been bailed out before—in 1998 greatest skill is to make his family interests national during the financial crisis, when he demanded that as concerns. a rare pribumi (an indigenous, Muslim business group), “Have you ever … ” FORBES ASIA asks Bakrie in his his family deserved saving. A bailout this time would only interview since the financial crisis began three most likely involve a state-owned mining company tak- months ago, “ … advanced your personal business in- ing a stake in Bakrie’s coal-mining giant, Bumi Resources. terests while you have been a cabinet minister?” But in Indonesia, more than most nations, money The question is at the heart of the corporate means power, and by that measure, Bakrie’s influence is calamity that has engulfed Bakrie. The global banking waning. Last year FORBES ASIA estimated his family’s meltdown, collapsing commodity prices and investors’ wealth at $5.4 billion, putting it atop the list of Indone- flight from emerging markets have gathered to bring sia’s richest. This year the family’s fortune has been cut Bakrie’s 66-year-old empire perilously close to collapse. to only $850 million, dropping it to No. 9 on our list. “I Shares in his family’s companies have fallen by 90% as was the richest man in Indonesia,” he says with a wry nervous bankers, worried about a rerun of Asia’s smile. “But not any more. The shares have collapsed.” Bye-Bye Bakrie? Most of his wealth has disappeared, and he’ll be gone from the cabinet next year, but in Indonesia, never count out ABURIZAL BAKRIE | By Eric Ellis MUNSHI AHMED FOR FORBES 40 F O R B E S A S I A DECEMBER 22, 2008 ASIA40-51 Bakrie LO 12/4/08 5:26 PM Page 41 ASIA40-51 Bakrie LO 12/4/08 5:26 PM Page 42 Indonesia’s 40 Richest Critics say he used his wealth to finance recent price of 7 U.S. cents. Trading in the of the group’s negotiations,” he says. What’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s 2004 shares was suspended for most of October, more, the group’s corporate communications presidential campaign and got a cabinet slot leading critics to charge that the company was office has been known to freeze out analysts as the dividend. “It is only envy that mentions trying to arrange a rescue without a nosediv- and media it doesn’t like, and forward con- that,” Bakrie says, adding that it’s not true ing share price as the backdrop. Rumors of fidential e-mail exchanges around town to he helped finance Yudhoyono’s presidential deals came and went, as did an announce- humiliate inquirers. Bumi denies this. “No tilt. (The presidential palace declined to ment of a big stock buyback. “Their already such deliberate tactics have been employed comment.) “There is a lot of envy in the limited credibility has continued to evaporate,” nor adopted,” says Bumi director Dileep world. The press does not believe there are says James Bryson, managing director of Srivastava. rich people who are not corrupt who want Jakarta investment house HB Capital. “The The Bakrie Group’s history is partly to to contribute to the country.” whole process has become something of a blame, too. It defaulted during the 1997–98 Bakrie continues. “It is not usual that a farce in the eyes of the institutional investor crisis and its shareholders and bankers lost big businessman would want to be a minis- community, both domestic and foreign.” millions. Confidence in corporate Indonesia ter with a very small salary … [his ministe- Bumi has managed to unload some of its has taken years to recover. The company rial salary is $1,600 a month] … that we rich debt. Jakarta private equity firm Northstar Pa- seemed finished, but Bakrie negotiated a people, who don’t want corruption, think it’s cific, in which U.S. investor David Bonder- government bailout, pleading that as one of time to contribute to the country, through the man’s Texas Pacific Group is a partner, orches- Indonesia’s few non-ethnic-Chinese business cabinet.” trated a $575 million conversion of empires, the Bakries not only deserved “Come on, pak,” FORBES ASIA implores, debt—believed to be held by Credit Suisse— another chance, they were also critical in employing the Indonesian vernacular for sir, to equity. Another $70 million owed to rebuilding national esteem. or uncle, with the But the rescue came at a price; once- approachable Bakrie. burned bankers now demanded that loans be “The people say you are “What I am doing is collateralized by shares in Bakrie companies. a reminder of the old That was fine while Indonesia recovered and Indonesian ways, how contributing to my country, they did well. Suharto fell in 1998 and in- business was done in a contribution to God.” vestors warmed again to a huge emerging Suharto’s Indonesia.” (The market that was evolving into one of Asia’s late dictator stole $30 bil- most robust democracies. In 2004 Yudhoy- lion during his 32-year rule, the World Bank JPMorgan Chase was converted into a 5% ono, or SBY as he is known, won the coun- calculates.) Bakrie is asked to place his hand stake held by another Jakarta private equity try’s first election in which voters directly on his heart and pledge to Allah that he has firm, Ancora Partners. The group still has $1.3 picked the president. But to win, SBY had to never once transacted business in the four billion in loans maturing by April, and they rely on Suharto’s old Golkar party and the years he’s been in the cabinet. are secured by Bumi shares worth half that national chamber of commerce, Kadin, two Bakrie obliges, drawing his right hand to amount. Getting its foreign bankers, already institutions that had become near-fiefdoms his left chest. “Hand on heart, no!” he says. hammered by the credit crunch, to renew of the reborn Aburizal Bakrie. When SBY “What I am doing is contributing to my coun- these loans might be difficult. Says Goldman named his cabinet, there was a job for Bakrie try, a contribution to God, that’s all.” Sachs’ Chee Yoke Fong in a note to clients: as economics minister. But he proved to be He expresses frustration. “I don’t know “While the [Northstar] deal has provided a lackluster minister and in 2005 was moved how to explain to people my true belief. This Bakrie a lifeline in the restructuring of its debt, to the people’s welfare portfolio, administer- is what I feel. This is why I went to the cabinet.” we think its complexity and opaqueness fails ing to Indonesia’s many poor. Meanwhile, much of the Bakrie Group’s to remove the existing overhang on Bumi.” If it was a demotion, it didn’t seem to focus for the past three months has been on Bakrie’s problem isn’t just debt; it also has bother Bakrie, seemingly content to be an salvaging its prized asset, Bumi Resources, a poor reputation for transparency.
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