The Harita Group is an Indonesian business conglomerate owned and controlled by the Lim family.[1] The group's core businesses are in the natural resources sector, which operates throughout Indonesia. Today, the Harita Group has businesses in nickel mining, ferronickel smelters, bauxite mining, alumina refineries, palm oil plantations, shipping, timber, coal and property.[2][3] The current CEO of Harita Group is Lim Gunawan Hariyanto.
History
The group was started in 1915 by Lim Tju King, an immigrant from China. He started with a small trading shop in Long Iram inland of the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. His son Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono took over and moved into the timber business, first by trading timber and later going into timber concessions and in manufacturing of plywood in 1983.
Starting in the late 1980s, Lim Hariyanto started rapidly expanding the business through